by Franck Biancheri 17/04/2003 In May 1997, in Washington, at the ’Bridging the Atlantic : People to People’ conference, organized by State Department, EU Commission and Dutch Foreign Affairs, we (a bunch of European and American citizens coming from NGOs and academia) invented TIESWEB in order to increase the relations between ...
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Where is Europe going? French, Germans and Belgians must open the track
by Franck Biancheri 16/04/2003 Unlike the experts of all kinds who lament the state of the European Union following the divisions between governments over Iraq, I believe that this crisis has brought some very positive news to Europeans and that it can save the Community project from the shipwreck that ...
Read More »Upon whom will the ashes of Baghdad fall down?
by Franck Biancheri 14/04/2003 In one way or another, this is the question asked to the entire world today. Strangely, the various answers provided to this question do not seem to depend on people’s appreciation of the military campaign along the two usual criteria: . the probability of ...
Read More »Assessing the impact of Eurorings (a decentralized system)
Executive summary – Seminar Eurorings (Frankurt, February 24, 2003) 07/03/2003 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 ...
Read More »Eurorings 3 – The impact of Eurorings (a decentralised system) on the status of the European public service
Frankfurt (City Hall), February 24, 2003 24/02/2003 Organised in partnership with the Europa Büro of the City of Frankfurt Note de synthèse des travaux Concept The future distribution of the European institutions throughout the European Institution Network will most certainly put the EU political and administrative system more in ...
Read More »Transatlantic perspectives on Iraq
by Tim Erickson 07/02/2003 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 ...
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
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 ...
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