It has also reached out to Europe, opening the way for exploratory talks on a trans-Atlantic bloc.
Orwell foresaw this linkage in his vision of a new bloc of trans-Atlantic powers called Oceania in his novel "1984".
The National Weather Service predicted "near-blizzard conditions" and issued a winter storm warning — extending from Friday to late Saturday — that covered a vast bloc of the Mid-Atlantic.
The PTD's stated mission has been to promote "democratic change" in Euro-Atlantic governments, primarily the former Soviet bloc.
At a summit meeting scripted to embrace seven new members from the old Soviet bloc, the 19 leaders of the North Atlantic alliance united today behind President Bush and strongly condemned Iraq, saying it had failed to meet United Nations demands to surrender weapons of mass destruction.
Yes, I know we had some spectacular trans-Atlantic rows about how to deal with the Soviet bloc, but ultimately the Red Army always concentrated our minds on the need for Western unity.
This lack of leadership has prevented the European Union from agreeing to a security doctrine that would define the bloc's interests but also redefine the trans-Atlantic relationship.
The comments drew a swift response from senior European Union figures, eager to emphasize that Trump's coolness to the bloc did not reflect the overall health of the trans-Atlantic relationship.
Mr. Asmus, for example, now a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, argues that "the democratic transformation of the Greater Middle East should be the next big trans-Atlantic project following the fall of the wall and the consolidation of a peaceful Europe, including the former Eastern bloc".
Michael Grosse-Brömer Grosse-Brömernthey parliamentary the ruling conservative bloc, warned that if the represidentved true, "it would be suforcientheo shatterulingal trust and to damage the conservativeing trans-Atlantic relationship".
