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THE
LISBON SCORECARD V: Can
Europe compete?
The
EU is half-way through its ten year programme of economic
reform, the ‘Lisbon agenda’. The EU is unlikely
to achieve its goal of becoming the world’s most competitive
and dynamic economy by 2010. But the EU can be proud of unsung
successes in areas like pension reforms and the liberalisation
of telecoms and energy markets. This pamphlet, the CER’s
fifth Lisbon scorecard, provides a comprehensive assessment
of the EU’s
progress – highlighting the heroes and villains of the
reform process
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Developing
New Modes of Governance. Forward Studies Unit, European Commission
To achieve political integration is a project that is perhaps
fraught with even more difficulty than its economic counterpart
insofar as it raises serious questions about the nature and
practice of democracy in contemporary conditions, but it is
one that, for the same reason, offers the possibility of rich
dividends if successf.ul. |
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European Cities in a Global Era: Urban Identities
and Regional Development
Our
ambition was to stimulate debate across professional, political
and administrative boundaries, to ensure ongoing balanced
and sustainable development in and between all the regions
of Europe.Some of the central points presented at the conference
were: that we must support diversity and local identity, that
strategic thinking is of critical importance for future urban
and regional development and that the existing planning culture
needs to be revitalised. |
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EUROPE
PLUS THIRTY: Analysis and prospective then and now. by Lord
Wayland Kennet and Dimitris Kyriakou
In
1974 the European Commission called for a report on whether
it should have a forecasting instrument and a technology assessment
office of its own. The writers of the report, chaired by the
present writer, recommended it should. The differences between
that recommendation and the current reality of IPTS is explored
in this paper, which was given as a lecture there at the invitation
of the Director of IPTS. |
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Europe? Which Europe? Which future Europe?
The
real existing Europe is a Europe of nation states, 'Europe
des patries'. This section is divided, by attitudes to nations
and 'Europe' (often meaning the EU). There are four basic
attitudes: active rejection of the EU as an enemy of nations,
a passive acceptance of nations and the EU, a belief in the
necessity of co-operation among nations, and a specific belief
that the EU is good for existing nations. |
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Four Futures of Europe, CPB Netherlands Bureau for
Economic Policy
Europe
is at a crossroads. The enlargement with ten new members forces
the European Union to reform its decision making process and
to reconsider its policies. At the same time, developments
such as ageing force EU member states to reform their welfare
states. Where will this bring the European Union and its members
states ten or twenty years from now? And how should policy
makers deal with this uncertainty when deciding about policies
with long-lasting consequences? |
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Perspectives on Europe’s Role in the Future
United
Europe is a network of European states and cultures, which
economy is based on innovation and research, which common
policies are centered on strategic issues, which cultural
richness is well cultivated and which environment is well
preserved. Thus United Europe represent by 2030 the highest
form of sustainable human community.
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Reflections
on European Identity. Forward Studies Unit, European Commission
The texts that have been gathered in the following pages were
written or pronounced during the «Carrefour Européen des sciences
et de la culture» which was held in 1996 in Coimbra. The Carrefours
Européens aim to provide a forum where personalities coming
from the world of science or culture can discuss and exchange
their views with Commission officials. |
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Scenarios
Europe 2010, Five Possible Futures for Europe. Forward Studies
Unit European Commission
Aware of this lacuna, the Forward Studies Unit of the European
Commission launched at the beginning of 1997 a project, Scenarios
Europe 2010, with the objective of producing a sesft
of coherent and thought-provoking images of the future of
Europe. It is the hope that by studying these scenarios the
reader will be encouraged to reflect both on the changes that
are taking place in the world and on the options that lie
ahead. |
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The
union we need. Forward Studies Unit, European Commission
European integration is anything but a natural phenomenon.
It is not some fate or chance that has befallen Europe against
its wishes, but a conscious, deliberate and rational rejection
of decline and the mistakes of the past. It was deliberately
willed by the nations of Europe. It was they who wanted the
Single Market and who planned the euro, laid the foundations
of political union and decided on enlargement. In embarking
on integration, Europeans have woken up to their shared destiny,
in order to shape it.
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