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• The fine art of procrastination

  Europe 2020: a letter of good intentions. With no commitments.

  Saturday 6 March 2010, by Till Burckhardt , 2 comments
  
  The Lisbon Strategy, adopted ten years ago, had the goal of turning the EU into “the most dynamic and the most competitive knowledge economy in the world by 2010”. The Commission is now trying to repackage the strategy in order to succeed in 2020. What went wrong with the Lisbon Strategy? What (...) Continue
  
  

• Further EU Unification Needed to Restore Economic and Political Governance

  Friday 26 February 2010, by JEF-Europe
  
  “Those who ever accused the EU of being an ’economic giant but a political dwarf’ will soon be left with two dwarfs instead of a second giant, unless fresh federalist impetus be given to European governance” warns JEF-Europe President Philippe Adriaenssens. No less than eight months after the (...) Continue
  
  

• A Flexible ECI Regulation will Inject more Democracy in the EU

  Monday 22 February 2010, by JEF-Europe
  
  JEF seized the opportunity to take part in the broad public consultation launched by the European Commission to express its pro-democratic views on how the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) should function in practice. “JEF welcomes the European Citizens’ Initiative as a concrete tool to (...) Continue
  
  

• The European diplomatic Service

  Monday 8 February 2010, by Clémentine Chaigneau, Miguel Castro Mendes, Translated by Elena Montani français - italiano
  
  In her statement in front of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, said on 2 December 2009 that her mission would be possible only if she "were supported by a powerful new (...) Continue
  
  

• Europe needs a genuine plan for the future, not another ten-years‘ placebo

  Sunday 31 January 2010, by Maja Augustyn français
  
  After its term has almost elapsed, the ambitious Lisbon Agenda has long stopped to raise eyebrows. Herman van Rompuy has declared that a follow-up strategy for the years 2010-2020 should become his first priority, but certainly he will have a hard task managing the formation of a more (...) Continue
  
  

• Olivier Ferrand: “Transforming the European Commission into a genuine political Government”

  Saturday 23 January 2010, by Fabien Cazenave, Translated by Elena Montani , 4 comments français
  
  Olivier Ferrand, President of Terra Nova and specialised in European affairs, published the book “L’Europe contre l’Europe”. His thesis: “Today’s Europe blocks the emergence of tomorrow’s Europe”. That is to say, of a federal Europe. Interviewer: What is the reason behind an official report of the (...) Continue
  
  

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