European Union is build and continues to progress based on shared values and interests of all member states toward a common vision. No doubt it is a success story of its own. It is very important that countries with different cultures and interests stick together and discuss their common future. Member countries use the diversity [...]

The boundaries of Europe are vague and hard to establish. Our borders are the principles and values that inspired the Fathers of the united Europe: democracy, social justice, peace. All these values constitute our border. That is why Europe has the duty to promote and diffuse those universal achievements, especially between our nearest neighbours of [...]

The Directive 2001/86/CE has been especially detrimental to the promotion of a pan-European social model in the following two areas:
a) It has not applied the “involvement” model currently in force in Germany, pertaining to the merger of German companies with companies in other Member States.
b) Likewise, it has not applied the German model relating to [...]

We need to work towards regional groupings in the UN. We are helped in this aim by the final document of the UN General Assembly produced on the occasion of its 60th anniversary. Section 170 of this document refers to “territorial organizations” within the 200-odd member states of the UN, with the aim that the [...]

Member States of the EU who also have a seat on the UN Security Council, either permanent o temporary, must coordinate their positions in the UN, and also reach an agreement with the High Representative over the common position. It is not enough merely to inform the HR of the position adopted, as stated in [...]

The EMI must demand that Enhanced Cooperation in the areas of CFSP and CDSP is authorised, in the same way as in other areas, that is to say by qualified majority in the Council and not, as was demanded in Art. III-419.2 in the Draft Constitution and is repeated in Art. 329.2 of the TFEU, [...]

The EMI proposes that the President of the European Council (who occupies this position for two years) does not exercise the limited powers of representation in the areas of Foreign Affairs and Security, as described in the Lisbon Treaty.
The President should be the leading representative of the EU in these areas and should be considered [...]

If the EU considers itself, according to the Rawlsian definition, a “decent” supranational organization, its budget for overseas development cannot stay at the current miserly percentage of EU GDP. The objective of 0.7% of GDP is perfectly possible, as the Scandinavian countries have demonstrated. This must be one of the star proposals of the EMI [...]

The EU Foreign Office should not be formed merely by those designated by the EU Council and Commission, as the Lisbon Treaty establishes. This leaves the rest of the members of the EU Foreign Office to come from each Member State.
It is vital that the EU has a diplomatic service which is large, coordinated and [...]

Proposition de thème au sein de l’atelier “Europe politique”
par Dusan Sidjanski
Comment l’Union européenne peut-elle ou doit-elle gérer l’alliance avec les Etats-Unis et le partenariat avec la Russie ?
L’alliance à la lumière de la guerre en Irak, de l’intervention de l’OTAN en Afghanistan, de la crise financière et des réalisations ou problèmes de l’OMC (Doha, Airbus, [...]