European Think tank Lab
Vision has always dedicated particular attention on Europe and on the future of the constituting process. After the recent transformations of the Union (the enlargement, the new Constitution) Vision is relaunching the project of a European Think Tank Lab.Vision’s Quick Collection “A Vision for the new Europe” Are the referenda signs of an irreversible crisis of Europe? Is the crisis even larger, does it tell of a much wider decline of the entire set of values (democracy, reason, openness) upon which our societies were built? Can we see opportunities and can we divide them from the dangers?
How do alternative interpretations of the problem (jobs and competitiveness, stability and welfare, enlargement, efficiency and legitimacy of the institutions) compare to each other in terms of ability to explain? How strong is the relationship between democracy and competitiveness? What kind of constitution do we need in the 21st century and which were the merits and the mistakes of the treaty? What kind of Europe would we imagine if we could redesign radically its mission and mechanisms to deliver? What should be its boundaries, if any? Where should we start in order to seriously engage young, mobile segments of the public opinion in the construction of the new Europe? Can the British presidency be the right opportunity to experiment a new method to push the project forward? After the French and Dutch “no” to referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, Vision’s position paper is a starting point for international contributions on the future of the “European dream”. Each of the article we are presenting is a call for further opinions and ideas.
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A Vision for the new Europe
Vision
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European Union comes at the limit of its enlargement
Borislav Gradinarov, (Sofia) Professor at the Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgaria
After the referenda: a Serbian comment on the future of Europe
Aleksandra Bobic, (Belgrad) correspondent from Italy of the Serbian newspaper Vecernje novosti, Serbia
Quelques commentaires sur le «Non» français
Stéphane Andre, (Brussels), EU Commission, France
A two-speed Europe, at last
Ann Mettler, (Brussels) Executive director of the Lisbon Council, Germany
Reflections on the European crisis
Menachem Rabinovitz, (Jerusalem) Director of the Israeli think tank Vision for Israel, Israel
Europe: a clash of dreams
Deniz Akkan, (Istanbul) PhD in EU Economics at the Marmara University, Turkey
Iron Tony
Daniel Schwammenthal, (Brussels) columnist of the Wall Street Journal Europe, USA
After the French and Dutch “no”
Francesca Paci, (Turin) journalist of the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Italy
The French vote is good news for Europe
Natalia Leshchenko, (Minsk) PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, UK
The New Old European Politics
Richard Gowan, (London/New York) UK
The value of solidarity in Europe
Lorenzo Zucca, (Florence) researcher at the EUI, Italy
New Europe Quick Collection
What kind of Europe is emerging from one of the most crucial month in its recent history? Do the European elections represent the end of the European Union project? How strong are the new convention and the Commission that is taking shape? Why does the project decline in the Member States, which should benefit more from it? What can relaunch the “old Europe” which appears to be heading for a slow decline? Does the possibility of creating a “European public opinion” and transnational political party still exist? Which can be the role of those young Europeans, which are used to move in international context, but they are difficult to be involved by the traditional political mechanism of participation? The position paper of Vision is the start up of a new collection whose objective is to introduce the new project of a European Think Tank Lab. Contributors to the collection represent various national culture– Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Israel, Finland, UK, Turkey, France. They share all the characteristic of the “class” (young, mobile, and cosmopolitan) which Vision wants to be a “representation” of. They are:
Deniz Akkan, PhD in EU Economics at Marmara University of Istanbul
David Bassa, a Catalan journalist at Televisió de Catalunya (TV3-TVC) in Barcelona
Koert Debeuf, Strategic advisor to Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt in Bruxelles
Tibor Dessewffy, leader of Hungarian sector of World Internet Project (UCLA) from Budapest
Joana Mateus, a Portuguese journalist working for Associated Press News Agency in Lisbon
Claire O’Brien, Research Fellow in Human Rights at the LSE in London
Francesca Paci, a journalist on the Italian newspaper La Stampa in Turin
Menachem Rabinovitz, PhD in Policy and Philosophy at Mandel School in Jerusalem
Martina Rydman, French-Finnish, Researcher at Foreign Policy Centre in Helsinki
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Feedback from the readers
La démocratie europèenne à l'épreue des pouvoirs (for Paci, Rydman e Debeuf)
Stéphane Andre, Bruxelles
Europe's democratic sickness
Paul Hilder, London
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Vision has always dedicated particular attention on Europe and on the future of the constituting process. After the recent transformations of the Union (the enlargement, the new Constitution) Vision is relaunching the project of a European Think Tank Lab.
