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Laboratoire Européen d´Anticipation Politique

Laboratoire Européen
d´Anticipation Politique

Connecting Europe to its citizens, the world and the future

{“Enlargement and the constitution are two sides of the same coin”} (G. Schröder) The year 2004 announces itself as the year of Europe par excellence. It will see EU enlargement (in May), elections to the European Parliament (in June), a new Commission (in September) and possibly a European Constitution (in ...

{ {{ {{{Organised in partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}} }} } [Seminar’s executive summary->http://www.europe2020.org/spip/spip.php?article214&lang=en] {{ {{{Concept}}} }} Relations between EU and North America are the central strategic axis of international relations in the coming decades. Those two continents represent both the greatest democratic groups in the world ...

Numerous institutions and institutes, scholars and politicians have tried in the last years to asses as exact as possible the benefits and costs of the enlargement wave to take place in May 2004. A considerable part of the resulting studies are concentrating on the (as) pure (as possible) financial aspects ...

E-democracy, fuelled by new technologies, is more than a tool of efficiency, customer service or good public relations – it could help create a refreshed public space and a more accountable democracy. E-democracy may be the 21st century’s most seductive idea. Imagine technology and democracy uniting to overcome distance and ...

The transatlantic relationship has experienced a period of turbulence that has generated questions about its durability and relevance. The New Transatlantic Agenda (1995) sought to maintain a healthy partnership when it launched a series of citizen-level dialogues to build bridges across the Atlantic. These dialogues, in areas like labor and ...

This first paper has been written in order to lay the basis of the section “Europe with Regions”. It represents a functional description of the evolution, main actors, mechanisms, objectives, principles, instruments of the EU Regional Policy preceded by general concepts and definitions inserted in the paper in order to ...

{{{ {{Do we need a space policy?}} }}} The headlines are dramatic: – The US is spending €35 billion on military and civil space research, which represents six times more than Europe in all its configurations and geography according to the European Commission (DN: IP/03/82, Date: 21/01/2003) – “Now the ...

{” It was veritable fireworks of corruption that accompanied the demise of the Polish government”} Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* {{Greasy Palms}} One of the most pressing problems in the countries of Central Europe today remains the question of corruption, which despite more than a decade of reform bedevils and distorts both ...

The failure of the Cancun summit has been thoroughly analysed by many parties. Inevitably this analysis results in finger pointing at the various countries that are presumed guilty for the failure. Although every player has a different culprit to aim at (« the other guys »), all analyses seem to ...

The EU’s future common policy towards the Arab World will have to follow a very innovative direction compared to the existing bilateral relations built up by Member-States in the past decades or centuries. Combining objective factors (suchas demography, energy, water resources, security) with XXIst century political constraints (globalisation, democratisation), the ...