Executive summary – Seminar GlobalEurope/EU-Latin America (Lisbon, July 9, 2004) 19/07/2004 This fifth GlobalEurope 2020 anticipation seminar was organised on July 9th 2004 by Europe 2020 in cooperation with the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the support and participation of the State Secretary to European affairs Mr ...
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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 ...
Read More »What common EU policy towards Africa?
Executive summary – Seminar GlobalEurope 2020 / EU-Africa (Brussels, May 5, 2004) 18/05/2004 When the European Communities were founded in 1957, the vast majority of the African continent was still part of the European colonial empires. This tells a lot on how ancient EU-African relations are. Africa is ...
Read More »A European proposal for an exit strategy from Iraq
by Franck Biancheri 17/05/2004 In the present circumstances Iraq has no way out from chaos. Quite the contrary : everyday seems to bring even more confusion and sense of tragedy : militia fights, jail abuses, terrorist attacks, bitter oppositions within the US, soaring human and financial costs of US occupation, ...
Read More »Wider Europe and the Neighbourhood Strategy of the European Union – A Quest of Identity?
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, ...
Read More »Can Hungary Compete?
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 ...
Read More »After Iraq: Can We Build a Better World?
by Adrian Taylor 17/03/2004 A year after the Iraq war, even if the analysis of how to tackle the problems diverge wildly, the good news is that most Europeans and Americans can probably agree that : . There are still numerous threats to global security . The existing global ...
Read More »The United Nations and New York
by Belisarius 02/03/2004 As a sign of the times, the United Nations building in New York, a post-war legacy, needs to be thoroughly renovated. It is not (only) a question of removing the microphones of Blair, Bush and others. Almost 60 years after its conception, while the silhouette remains elegant, ...
Read More »Quelle politique d’immigration pour l’Europe ?
par Harald Greib 09/02/2004 Objectif de ce document Ce document entend servir de base de réflexion sur une politique d’immigration de l’Europe à l’horizon 2020. Fidèle à la manière de travailler d’Europe 2020, il ne s’agira pas de proposer des réponses et des solutions toutes faites qui n’existent de ...
Read More »“Europe or death”: The impact of the EU’s Eastern Enlargement on the future of Europe
by Kilian Strauss 30/01/2004 “Enlargement and the constitution are two sides of the same coin” (G. Schröder) The year 2004 announces itself as the year of Europe par excellence. It will see EU enlargement (in May), elections to the European Parliament (in June), a new Commission (in September) ...
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