For the first time in a long time in an election year, the world is not living at the pace of the US presidential campaign but at the pace of a virus. And yet, if there is one year in which the election could hold surprises, it is this one. ...
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Online Debate : What will post-COVID-19 Europe look like?
200 people followed live the first “New European Perspectives” debate on “post-Covid Europe challenges” organised by Movimiento Roosevelt, LEAP and CitizensRoute on Thursday, April 2nd. The discussion is available on : In Full or 0.33 : Maria Zei (MR-CR bridge) introduces to the « New European Perspectives » series of online debates 3.05 : ...
Read More »The Trends magazine pays tribute to Philippe Maystadt’s “Euroland” testament
Following the launching event of LEAP’s Special Euroland Review, the Trends Magazine published an article paying a due tribute to Philippe Maystadt’s “Euroland” testament to be found in the volume. “Philippe Maystadt left a testament, via an interview he gave a few weeks only before passing away to Robert Polet ...
Read More »Comments on a proposed “Treaty for the Democratisation of the Eurozone” by Thomas Piketty and Friends (Christel Hahn)
Piketty’s “Pour un traité de démocratisation de l’Europe”, which is available in french since March, has just been released in german as „Für ein anderes Europa“ (for a different Europe). The subtitle of the german book clarifies, that the book presents a „Treaty for the Democratisation of the Eurozone“1, a very specific project, which ...
Read More »Agora of Euroland Citizens, by LEAP2020
What is the Euroland Agora? VISION Euroland Agora recognizes Eurozone as a fertile ground to initiate the political and democratic integration of Europe. Based on this idea, Euroland Agora aims at contributing to the emergence of a democratic Euroland at the heart of the EU, in an innovating way that ...
Read More »Acceleration of the process of distinction between Euroland-EU, by Franck Biancheri (February 2012)
An excerpt from GEAB N°62 (February 2012) At the same time these two years will see the acceleration of the difference between Euroland and the EU. It is a phenomenon which will in fact characterize the whole of the decade. Euroland which functions to a large extent in the form ...
Read More »LEAP launches new working group – « Euroland Governance 2020 »: completing the Eurozone’s institutional embryo, securing its democratic articulation
For some twenty years, the building and management of Europe took place in the framework of the European Union (EU) which replaced in 1992 the previous framework, called European Community. This framework is now breathless. Questioned by member-states and citizens alike, attacked on every front, it endangers the European project ...
Read More »A certain idea of the Netherlands
by Jos de Beus 29/03/2006 “An interesting era is always an enigmatic one, which promises little rest, prosperity, continuity, security” Paul Valéry, Variété (1938), quoted by Eugen Weber The Hollow Years, France in the 1930s, London Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995, p.3. The distance of two related European peoples The Netherlands, recently, has ...
Read More »European Regional Policy in the Netherlands.
by Laura Trofin 11/10/2004 The Netherlands appears seldom in publications dealing with regional policy, genuine or European. Countries like Spain, Italy, Ireland, Germany mostly incite the researchers interests. Despite the small dimensions of the country and of the structural funds implemented here, the manner in which regional policy is understood ...
Read More »France’s industrial policy after the Aventis-Sanofi merger
by Tim Rogmans 16/06/2004 It took until the terrorist attacks in Madrid for French Prime Minsiter Raffarin to finally speak out on the battle for Aventis between French/German Sanofi and the Switzerland based Novartis. Raffarin said that in this age of terrorism France must make sure that it always has ...
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