01/12/2003 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 ...
Read More »Author Archives: Comcart Collaborator
Bringing Europeans to the Moon
by Franck Biancheri 01/12/2003 Year 2003, with recent tragedy of US space shuttle Columbia and with very likely launch of a manned spacecraft by China, is definitely closing an era of space conquest and opening a completely new one. The finishing era is the era of USA/Russia complete ...
Read More »Space: the Final White Elephant?
by Adrian Taylor 27/11/2003 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 ...
Read More »Grappling with Graft – Civil Society and the Fight against Corruption in Central Europe
by Kilian Strauss 24/11/2003 ” 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 ...
Read More »World trade after Cancun
by Tim Rogmans 19/11/2003 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 »), ...
Read More »What common policy of the EU towards the Arab World in 2020?
Executive summary – Seminar GlobalEurope 2020 EU/Arab world (Paris, October 14, 2003) 28/10/2003 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 ...
Read More »Seminar GlobalEurope 1 / EU-Arab world
Paris (Centre Kléber), October 14, 2003 14/10/2003 Organised in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs — > Seminar’s executive summary Concept If one word was to define Euro-Arab relations, this word would be “intimacy”, i.e. with all the ambiguity the word conveys: feeling of proximity and mutual knowledge on ...
Read More »Making Enlargement succeed or: how to complete the EU’s Eastern expansion
by Kilian Strauss 30/06/2003 Introduction 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, ...
Read More »Europe needs more Union
by Kilian Strauss 29/06/2003 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 ...
Read More »21st century economy : Too much short term kills the long term
by Henri de Courtivron 23/06/2003 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 ...
Read More »