Secondary European capitals like Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxemburg are inappropriate to represent the EU as a strong, confident and forward-looking global player that it so desperately wants to be. They appear remote from the citizens and breed incestuous behaviour. Moving the Council, Commission, Parliament and Court of Justice to the ...

{ {{{Organised by the le EU Center of the University System of Georgia in collaboration with Europe 2020}}} } ________ {{ {{{Topic}}} }} The theme for this year’s event is an exploration of the security dimension in the transatlantic context. Security is defined broadly to include topics ranging from defense ...

{{ {{{Political anticipation training seminar}}} }} { {{{Organised in collaboration with the Club Prometheus-Istanbul and centre of documentation and research (ADAM) of the university BACHCESEHIR with the Political Science and Public Administration Club of the University Galatasaray and with the support of the European Commission}}} } _________ {{ {{{Concept}}} }} ...

«{Forecasting is a difficult art, especially when it comes to the future}» (Pierre Dac) «{Thinking about the future only makes sense if it is aimed at improving one’s thinking about the present and about the trends at work}» (Franck Biancheri) {{Why 2009?}} The prospective analyses for the 1998-2020 period conducted ...

{ {{{“Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world” George Washington, September 19th 1796 [[Farewell Address, quoted in “George Washington, Writings”, The Library of America, 1997, p. 975]]}}} } “The stunning and unexpectedly rapid success of the military campaign in Afghanistan ...

I do not know if I have fully understood the discourse dominant in the West at the moment, but in travelling around Europe and the United States over the last few weeks I have had the feeling that it (and by ‘it’ I mean the mix of media comment, political ...

{ {{{Organised by ZEI (Center for European Integration Studies) and Europe 2020 In cooperation with the Representation of North Rhine – Westphalia to the European Union in Brussels}}} } ________ {{ {{{Concept}}} }} The often discussed gap between expectations ( formuled or not ) and disapointments of European citizens is ...

The unability of the European system to find sustainable ways towards the future, as well as the scattered aspect of the political contributions of the European leaders, show it : the EU has reached a limit. Illegitimate child of the European Community and of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, ...

– {{With the Euro}}, a fundamental step in the European construction was made. A very strong link, experienced on a daily basis, will now connect the peoples and European citizens. The wish made by the founding-fathers and the post-war generation has become true: “an ever stronger union between the peoples”. ...

{Since WWII, almost all EU countries, one after the other, have discovered the issue of immigration, while for decades or centuries they were only emigration countries.} {{France is the only European country facing immigration for almost two centuries}} UK, Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, … all of them have been ...