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Laboratoire Européen d´Anticipation Politique

Laboratoire Européen
d´Anticipation Politique

Connecting Europe to its citizens, the world and the future

Although the summer recess may only just have ended, the debate on the EU referendum is hotting up. The Dutch constitution does not provide for referendums at the national level – neither binding nor consultative. To allow the Dutch people to decide on the EU constitution, at least in a ...

Europe needs buzzwords to function. After terms like ‘Maastricht’ and the ‘Single Market’, two issues have come to dominate the European political debate over the last few years : the Euro and Enlargement. Both are equally important projects on the way to closer European integration, both are key events in ...

{{History in the making}} The date of 16 April 2003 will perhaps one day be remembered as ‘historic’, along with dozens of others. On this day, an EU summit of a very particular kind was held in the Greek capital Athens. Twenty-five heads of State and Government gathered in the ...

Our economy is currently particularly dull and very few are those who can see any prospect of improvement in the near future. One of the reasons possibly explaining this situation is perhaps an unbalanced mix between all the numerous parameters to be taken into account when preparing a successful recipe ...

{The aim of the third Eurorings seminar which took place in Frankfurt in cooperation with the Municipality, was to examine the impact a decentralised political and administrative EU system could have on the European public service. Thanks to the 15 experts who joined the meeting, it was possible to tackle ...

{This war has become a highly emotional issue for all of us. Judging it in a sensible light has become more difficult than ever. Your discussion forum does provide a way to listen to various opinions and put them in perspective” – writes a participant from Connecticut, USA, after participating ...

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, ...

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 ...

{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 ...

Let’s assume for a minute that in 20 years from now the Middle East conflict will be resolved and Saddam Hussein will be gone. Israel and Palestine will have found a mutually acceptable agreement of peaceful coexistence and the Iraqi president will have been toppled by his own people or ...