According to research done by EOS/Gallup for the European Commission, European companies say that they are excessively shackled by the poor quality of regulation. They put the cost of regulation at 4% of Community GDP. 15% of this cost, or 0.6% of Community GDP, could be avoided by better regulation, ...
Read More »Towards a “New Deal” in Europe? First steps to smart consultation and quality regulation in the E.U.
by Philippe Portalier 27/01/2003 According to research done by EOS/Gallup for the European Commission, European companies say that they are excessively shackled by the poor quality of regulation. They put the cost of regulation at 4% of Community GDP. 15% of this cost, or 0.6% of Community GDP, could ...
Read More »Franco-German cooperation is reborn from the ashes?
by Harald Greib 25/01/2003 We always talked about it and often: this cooperation between two countries that had overcome their so-called hereditary antagonisms after three wars in less than a century, a cooperation that had made it possible to begin the path towards a peaceful, prosperous and united Europe. France ...
Read More »Creating a “European-languages class” to the primary- and secondary-school curricula
A new entity requires new tools to be run properly and languages are a key-aspect in 21st-Europe success or failure. Indeed languages (at the crossroads of cultures and politics) are at the heart of the basic requirement of the European construction: creating unity while maintaining diversity (“in unam pluribus”). {{Common ...
Read More »Creating a “European-languages class” to the primary- and secondary-school curricula
by Marie-Hélène Caillol 07/01/2003 A new entity requires new tools to be run properly and languages are a key-aspect in 21st-Europe success or failure. Indeed languages (at the crossroads of cultures and politics) are at the heart of the basic requirement of the European construction : creating unity while maintaining ...
Read More »Eurorings 2 – Defining the new geographical map of the European institutions
The Hague (Townhall), November 22, 2002 22/11/2002 Organised in partnership with the City of The hague Seminar’s executive summary Concept The need for closing the gap between the EU institutions and the European citizens, the changing nature of European societies moving towards a “network society”, the enlargement of ...
Read More »Defining the new geographical map of the European institutions
Executive summary Seminar Eurorings 2 (The Hague, November 22, 2002) 22/11/2002 A new geography for the European institutions by 2020 The Court of Justice in The Hague, the Central Bank in Frankfurt, the Commission in Paris! The Parliament and the Council in Brussels or in London? The second Eurorings seminar ...
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{Organised in partnership with the City of The hague} [Seminar’s executive summary->http://www.europe2020.org/spip/spip.php?article354&lang=en] {{ {{{Concept}}} }} The need for closing the gap between the EU institutions and the European citizens, the changing nature of European societies moving towards a “network society”, the enlargement of the EU, the revolutions of communication (high ...
Read More »ERASMUS … and then what ?
{Recently, the European Commission has been celebrating its 1 million ERASMUS students. Romano Prodi has personally reverberated the event in an article underlining the programme’s success and launching some orientations for the future.} Being among those who made it possible for the ERASMUS programme to be adopted in Spring 1987, ...
Read More »ERASMUS… and then what?
by Franck Biancheri 12/11/2002 Recently, the European Commission has been celebrating its 1 million ERASMUS students. Romano Prodi has personally reverberated the event in an article underlining the programme’s success and launching some orientations for the future. Being among those who made it possible for the ERASMUS programme to ...
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