Paris (Hôtel de Ville), April 15, 2002 15/04/2002   “Towards a new EU institutional geography for a Europe closer to its citizens” Organised in partnership with the City of Paris Seminar’s executive summary Concept The European institutional system is the result of a double requirement strongly consistent with the ...

by Ralf Teschner 15/04/2002   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 ...

Executive summary Seminar Eurorings 1 (Paris, April 15, 2002) 15/04/2002 INTRODUCTION Right after the Euro-Launch, just before the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European Countries, and at the time when all the actors of the European construction are engaged in a debate on the in-depth reorganization of EU institutions, ...

  ecutive summary Seminar EU-Governance 2020/3 (Paris, February 4, 2002) 04/02/2002     INTRODUCTION The anticipation seminar ” Enlargement in a post-Euro EU: Estimating the new political factors ” organized by the Association Europe 2020, was held on February 4th, 2020, at the Kleber Centre of International Conferences (Paris), thanks ...

  Paris (Centre Kléber), February 4, 2002 04/02/2002   Organised with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs And of Mr Pierre Moscovici, French Minister in charge of European Affairs Seminar’s executive summary Concept This seminar takes place as part of the series of the EU / Governance ...

by Europe 2020 15/01/2002   Scénario A (currently, the official scenario) : The bureaucratic Temptation – Integration in 2004 Agenda: Basing the process of enlargement on the same model as the Euro, this very bureaucratic approach relies on the past experiences of European integration, of legal and administrative up-grading, with ...

by Franck Biancheri 06/12/2001 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 ...

Brussels (Representation of North Rhine – Westphalia to the EU), November 13, 2001 13/11/2001   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 ( ...

by Franck Biancheri 19/10/2001   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 ...

by Franck Biancheri 20/09/2001 Let’s create an international court against terrorism as we did with ex-Yougoslavia … and let’s prevent unilateral reactions which will fuel tomorrow’s terrorrists. The horrifying events which just took place in New-York and Washington are part of those which put their perpetrators on the bench of ...