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 ...

{Recently, the European Commission has been celebrating its 1 million ERASMUS students. Romano Prodi has personally reverberated the event in an article underlining the programme’s success and launching some orientations for the future.} Being among those who made it possible for the ERASMUS programme to be adopted in Spring 1987, ...

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 ...

{{ {{{I. Some methodological and operational advises to succeed in Copenhagen}}} }} The following recommendations, in the line of the ‘three scenarios for Enlargement’ published by Europe 2020 in November 2001 and of the “Europe 2020 vision” project, launched in June 2002, are based on the intention to ensure the ...

The decision by the Bush administration to impose tariffs on steel imports from various countries is certainly a violation of WTO rules. Legally, the safeguard mechanism that the US invokes is only allowed under WTO rules if there has been a recent surge in imports. In fact, US steel imports ...

The decision by the Bush administration to impose tariffs on steel imports from various countries is certainly a violation of WTO rules. Legally, the safeguard mechanism that the US invokes is only allowed under WTO rules if there has been a recent surge in imports. In fact, US steel imports ...

Today, at various degrees, the EU has 3 legislative bodies: the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission. That’s a lot for a political entity already made complex by its multinational structural. In a democracy, simple solutions have appeared to be the most sustainable and satifactory ones. The first reason ...

Organised with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Seminar’s executive summary ->http://www.europe2020.org/spip/spip.php?article392&lang=en] ___________ {{ {{{Concept}}} }} This seminar takes place as part of the series of the EU / Governance 2020 Anticipation Seminars which were initiated in 1999 (organized within the EU) ; referring also to the ...

{{Introduction}} ‘Enlargement presents an historic opportunity and an unprecedented political and economic challenge for the ever-evolving institutions of the European Union’. This statement by Gunter Verheugen ‘EU commissioner for enlargement’ is not yet shared by all people in Europe. Only 1 out of 5 EU-citizens believes that the EU should ...