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Laboratoire Européen d´Anticipation Politique

Laboratoire Européen
d´Anticipation Politique

Connecting Europe to its citizens, the world and the future

Executive summary – Seminar GlobalEurope 2020 (Moscow, December 18-19, 2008) TABLE OF CONTENTS I- Preamble II- Strategic and operational perspective III- Work synthesis Introduction 1. EU-Russia strategic cooperation in the field of finance and economy: how to contribute to found a new sound and balanced economic and financial order? 2. ...

3rd GlobalEurope EU-Russia Anticipation Seminar Moscow (MGIMO), December 18th-19th, 2008 Presentation Co- organised by European Study Institute of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and Laboratoire européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP/E2020) Preamble The world is going through a historic crisis putting an end to the systems and powers which ...

Much is happening across the Arab World. Only today, for instance, many of us woke up to learn that Lebanon’s erstwhile protagonists had drawn back from the precipice by concluding an agreement in Qatar that shuns war and toils for peace. In this article, therefore, I would like to focus ...

The management of linguistic diversity is one of the major challenges of European integration; it lies at the heart of what is Europe’s motto: “In varietate concordia” (Unie dans la diversité). Unfortunately, the staff and political and administrative structures currently in charge of meeting the challenges of European integration are ...

Israel’s position regarding its security demands, which entail undermining the sovereignty of a Palestinian state, narrows the chances for reaching an agreement. Essence of Warning During negotiations with the Palestinians in 1999-2001, Israel presented a number of security demands that included, among other things, the demilitarization of the Palestinian state, ...

As LEAP/E2020 often unlined it since January 2006, the global systemic crisis affects all fields and sectors of contemporary human activity. It is in this sense that this crisis differs from a classical crisis limited to this or that sector/region. In this edition of the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin, our team ...

Last September 16th, in the 17th issue of the GEAB, LEAP/E2020 predicted a difficult end of the year for France’s brand new president More contextually but not less significantly, the new French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s arrival into the European game is becoming a source of enduring tensions in the EU. ...

Recital 1 of the European Framework Directive establishes as a principle: “Water is not a commodity like any other, but a heritage that must be protected and treated as such”. Although the Directive was implemented in 2000, the European Union did not wait until the end of the 20th century ...

The confusion between the nature of the service and the persons in charge of the above-mentioned service leads the European Commission not to define the notion of public service. In this sense, the terms: Service of General Interest (SGI) and Service of General Economic Interest (SGEI) are preferred. According to ...

We Europeans have been, in the XXth century, from East to West of our continent, the actors of dreadful historical tragedies perpetrated in the name of modernity while in fact they were the contemporary expression of the most ancestral archaism. Repression, brutality, manipulation, extermination, conflict, division, terror, arbitrary,… dressed up ...