Non-Military Threats to the Alliance

I have been given the opportunity to say a few words on what could become a dialogue between the EU and the U.S. concerning the rather difficult questions of non-military threats, also called global or transnational threats, according to the importance they are accorded. These are principally terrorism, illicit drugs, and organized transnational crime. We can add other threats to these (e.g., certain trafficking of people), but we can also be content, at first, with an approach to these three first threats that I have cited.