Catégorie Europe
Financial Times – « Can we be hopeful about Europe’s future? »
« In many parts of this world, regions are looking at Europe to continue to provide a firmly anchored model for open values, a testing ground for developing new democratic solutions to face today’s global challenges.«
Les Echos – L’Europe, un avenir à construire ensemble
« Nous célébrons cette année le cinquantième anniversaire de la signature du traité de Rome, acte de naissance des Communautés européennes, modèle unique de souveraineté partagée entre Etats. Fruit du rêve de quelques-uns, l’idée européenne s’est matérialisée autour d’une double ambition empreinte des préoccupations des années 1950. Reconstruire une Europe encore convalescente et surtout prévenir toute […]
Can we be hopeful about Europe’s future?
Article on FT, by Pascal Lamy This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome creating the European Community. The late 1950s seems a distant world: the Budapest uprising against the communist government of Hungary, the Suez crisis, the unsolved German question. – FT.com >
Policy paper – View on What stability pact for Europe?
Policy paper by Hugo de Sousa The current economic situation in Europe is worrying. GDP growth for next year has been revised downwards and unemployment has been growing in some countries. The average growth rate estimated for this year is 0.8% and 1.8% in 2003. Moreover, four countries (Germany, France, Italy, Portugal) are facing difficulties keeping […]
What stability pact for Europe?
The current economic situation in Europe is worrying. GDP growth for next year has been revised downwards and unemployment has been growing in some countries. The average growth rate estimated for this year is 0.8% and 1.8% in 2003. Moreover, four countries (Germany, France, Italy, Portugal) are facing difficulties keeping their budget deficits below the […]
« l’UE doit rétablir le compromis, ou alors il faut se tenir prêt à se retrancher derrière les frontières de l’Etat-nation »
« The EU must reassert the trade-off or else we must stand ready to fall back behind the borders of the Nation- State« , Pascal Lamy warned as he closed the « Notre Europe tomorrow » symposium organised on 18 November at the French Senate House in partnership with Le Nouvel Observateur-Challenges.
Pascal LAMY 