A Tribute to the genius of a European generation! It’s here and it’s beautiful, our Euro-Citizens Directory 2020! The Franck Biancheri Heritage Community Eurocitizens Directory 2020 is a project initiated by the AAFB with the support and for the archives of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe. It lists, on ...
Read More »Book Vision 2020
25/10/2006 VISION 2020 : Reinventing Europe 2005-2020 A book remarked ever since its first publishing in June 2002 Jean Guyot, First financial director of the European Coal and Steel Community and former collaborator of Jean Monnet, prefaced the book. President of the Hippocrène Foundation, the first financial director ...
Read More »Scenarios for European Higher Education and Research in 2015 – Implications for Recognition of Studies
by Bernd Baumgartl PhD 23/10/2006 Margaretenstrasse 99 AT 1050 Vienna, Austria T & F : +43 1 945 65 58 office@navreme.net www.navreme.net Developing VET Scenarios in Central and Eastern Europe and Their Added Value for Policy-Making”, European Journal of Education, No. 1/98, Institute for European Educational Policy, Paris. 5 ...
Read More »Civil society and the European Union institutions
By Marco Caselli 06/10/2006 I Introduction The paper presents some preliminary results and reflections arising from an ongoing research project on the role – actual and potential – of civil society in the construction and consolidation of the European Union, in the latter’s life and functioning, and in the ...
Read More »EU Borders – The end of the myth of eternal enlargement
abstract GEAB N°6 16/06/2006 Turkey-Ukraine, two countries which will not join the EU / The Balkans, last enlargement of the next 20 years / Russia, the key to solve the EU-Turkey problem The increasing difficulties of the process of Turkey entering the European Union contrasts with the progressive entry “piece ...
Read More »The EU needs a democratic reshuffling of its institutions’ geography – Practical criteria
by Franck Biancheri 12/06/2006 Three new criteria to take in account for allocating institutions to a city/region. Euroring 1 area will become a vast European metropolis energized by high-speed trains (Thalys and EuroStar), fast and cheap planes and new information technologies. Meanwhile the growing complexity of the EU system (both ...
Read More »NATO faced to a loss of confidence in US leadership
Abstract GEAB N°4 16/04/2006 Astonishing public declarations made by US Generals (Source International Herald Tribune, 15/04/2006), criticizing Donald Rumsfeld’s mismanagement of the invasion of Iraq, and even the decision itself to invade the country, prove that even in the US the American military leadership is in a crisis. ...
Read More »Transatlantic divergences on threat evaluation – or the question of the Alliance’s « added-value »
Abstract GEAB N°4 16/04/2006 This question of the Alliance’s « added-value » is at the core of all the discussions which will lead to the “great debate” (or “great washing”) of the Riga summit. A military alliance is worth anything if it can protect from the military threats anticipated ...
Read More »A certain idea of the Netherlands
by Jos de Beus 29/03/2006 “An interesting era is always an enigmatic one, which promises little rest, prosperity, continuity, security” Paul Valéry, Variété (1938), quoted by Eugen Weber The Hollow Years, France in the 1930s, London Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995, p.3. The distance of two related European peoples The Netherlands, recently, has ...
Read More »Laicity (secularism): A Highly efficient instrument of social peace
by Masha Loyak 17/03/2006 With the French law against conspicuous religious signs, the outer world gets a glimpse of a key-instrument of France’s social-engineering invented along centuries of internal conflicts : laicity. At a time of growing internal and international social conflicts, it may be good news that this French ...
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