by Franck Biancheri 20/01/2006 Discussions, debates are the core of democracy. Language is the instrument for discussing. Languages are therefore at the very core of any EU democratisation process. When you go around Europe and discuss with people on the future of Europe, as I did for instance during ...
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EU: A constitutional deadlock and the crisis of the analytical system of/on the EU
Abstract GEAB N°1 15/01/2006 In this beginning of 2006, the project of constitutional treaty is still at the centre of most EU discussions. Does this mean that the process of ratification is being rejuvenated or is it the sign of a profound deadlock in which the EU institutions and ...
Read More »A Test Case for the European Union? The Trial of Orhan Pamuk
by Dr Harry Hagopian 28/12/2005 The trial of Orhan Pamuk had barely started in Istanbul, Turkey, on 16 December 2005, when the presiding judge adjourned the proceedings until 7 February 2006. Few are the media-savvy and news-conscious Europeans across much of the Union who will not have heard of Orhan ...
Read More »What immigration policy for the Europe we want to build?
by Harald Greib 16/11/2005 After the influx of survivors of civil wars in the Balkans into Europe, the wrecks full of Africans stranded on the beaches of Andalusia, the attacks on the border barriers of Spanish enclaves in Morocco, it is today the riots in the French suburbs that have ...
Read More »Seminar GlobalEurope II-2 / ’Paths to a future Common EU Policy towards Russia’
Moscow (Hotel President), October 5, 2005 09/10/2005 organized in partnership with The National Investment Council Concept In March 2004 in Warsaw (Foksal Palace) in partnership with the Diplomatic Academy of the Polish Foreign Ministry, Europe 2020 organised a seminar on the future Common EU Policy towards Russia as ...
Read More »Four Future scenarios for the European Union – Reflections from the perspective of “Path Dependence”
25/09/2005 Abstract This contribution will provide a short analysis of the concept of “path dependence” and its relevance for understanding the European Union (EU). It is assumed that apart from the official (documented) objectives which are supposed to put Europe on a specific track of peace, prosperity, multilateralism, human ...
Read More »Citizen – European project relations: Towards a « D for Democratisation » strategy
Post-Referendum Anticipation Paper N°2, by Franck Biancheri 14/06/2005 The current EU political crisis provoked by the French and Dutch « Noes » and by the resulting failure of the process of ratification of the European Constitution, in fact originates in the complete failure of more than 10 years ...
Read More »The Inevitable process of differentiation Euroland / European Union ’Post-Referendum Anticipation Paper N°1’
by Franck Biancheri 02/06/2005 Since 2003, Europe 2020 has considered as highly probable the appearance of a European crisis resulting from the failure of the Constitution’s ratification process. For this reason, Europe 2020 has been thinking for a long time already about possible alternatives to the Constitution. This reflection ...
Read More »Seminar GlobalEurope II-1 / ’Paths to a Future EU Policy Toward North America’
Washington (Hamilton Hotel), April 5, 2005 05/04/2005 In cooperation with Europe 2020, the European Institute hosted a seminar entitled, “Paths to a Future Common EU Policy Toward North America.” The discussion consisted of two morning sessions, in which Global Europe 2020 presented their findings on transatlantic divergence before ...
Read More »Legalization of illegal immigrants: the EU in the face of its internal contradictions
by Harald Greib 10/02/2005 Some commentators and Member State leaders were surprised that the Spanish government did not consult its neighbours before starting last week a major process of regularising the situation of illegal immigrants. However, the central problem of immigration control at European level comes precisely from the fact ...
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