by Franck Biancheri and Nicholas Reed 08/09/2004 One of the often cited weakest links in the American education system is the lack of international teaching, in history, languages, social issues and just about every other realm. When Americans do tend to study the rest of the world, we tend to ...

  by Ricardo Migueis 18/07/2004   A new era in inter-regional investment dynamics and a new a priority for the 2007-2013 community support framework have been launched. After the implementation of the Plan Real in 1994, providing the needed macroeconomic stability to Brazilian government, the same trend is taking place ...

  Lisbon (Belem Cultural Centre), July 9, 2004 09/07/2004   Organised in partnership with the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Seminar’s executive summary Concept Geographical remoteness and cultural proximity: such is the paradox on which relations between Europe and Latin America are based. From Spanish and Portuguese conquest to creation ...

  by Franck Biancheri 28/06/2004 Most probably, by next November, a new administration will be elected in the US. There is no wishful thinking about it (though 90% of Europeans do expect that G.W. Bush will loose). But changing to Kerry’s administration will not by itself makes EU/US relations successful. ...

by Aurélien Condomines 22/06/2004   European competition law has recently been in the subject of serious criticism from different, diametrically opposite angles of attack. But behind this criticism could lurk the necessity to rethink entirely the European approach to economic and industrial policy. The Commission is criticized for a wide ...

by Charles Fletcher 19/05/2004 Ten years ago, young Romanian journalists training at the BBC School in Bucharest dismissed guidelines on the use of violent pictures in television news. The BBC guideline calls for more sensitivity, restraint on the amount of violent images that can be screened, particularly together in one ...

  Executive summary – 2nd Transatlantic Miami Week (April 26th/30th 2004) 13/05/2004   For three days, a hundred participants and speakers coming from throughout the USA and the European Union, and also from Middle East and Africa, have gathered into the superb location of Miami Children’s Museum in order to ...

Brussels (Egmont Palace), May 5, 2004 05/05/2004 Organised in partnership with the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Seminar’s executive summary Concept Relations between Europe and Africa are very ancient. Contrary to most other regions in the word, the EU has for itself a rather long experience of relation to African ...

by Josef Langer 19/04/2004 With the forthcoming biggest enlargement („big bang“) in its history, the European Union is undoubtedly becoming more conscious of the question of boundaries. This can be recognized from a number of documents and discussions made public since 2002 when at the Copenhagen European Council (12/13 December, ...

by Magdolna Csath 16/04/2004   There are only five months before 10 more countries become full members of the EU. How well prepared these countries are for the challenges of the membership, and how ready the EU is for handling the unexpectedly emerging problems and potential shocks of enlargement ? There ...