The author has presented in the article the influence of the NATO internal transformation in transatlantic relations. Attention has been focused on the political and military transformation of NATO and the North Atlantic Alliance as a useful tool for European security. The author emphasised that thanks to the North Atlantic Alliance the Americans could intervene in European countries inner affairs and use NATO as an instrument to carry out its own interests. The author of the article also raised the most essential issues connected with the European Security and Defence Framework, Combined Joint Task Force and the influence of the European Union initiatives upon NATO internal transformation. However, there has been pointed out the need to continue to develop the European Security and Defence Policy with a view to ensuring that the European Union is genuinely capable of speaking out clearly and doing so with one voice. But it is stressed there is no consensus yet on how best the transatlantic relations should be rebuilt
