Edouard Balladur, For a Union of the West, Stanford, California:Hoover Institution Press, 2009 (originally published as Pour une Union occidentale entre l’Europe et les Etats-Unis, Paris:Fayard, 2007)

The Impossible Dream of the United States’ relations with the European Union (EU)has been to conclude a Transatlantic Free-Trade Agreement (TAFTA)with the EU.