TEPSA’s Activity Report 2007
TRANS EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES ASSOCIATION (TEPSA) Rue d'Egmont, 11 1000 Brussels tel : 32 (2) 511 34 70 fax: 32 (2) 511 67 70 e mail : [email protected] www.tepsa.be
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Table of Contents
I FOREWORD
II ABOUT TEPSA
III EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
IV TEPSA’ S ACTIVITIES IN 2007
IV.1. TEPSA PRE -PRESIDENCY CONFERENCES
IV.2. CITIZEN ’S EUROPE
1. TEPSA Friends meetings
2. Other meetings and conferences
3. BECSA-TEPSA project
IV.3. CO-OPERATION WITH PROJECTS AND NETWORKS OF EXCELLENCE
1. EU-CONSENT
2. THESEUS
IV.4. POLICY -RELATED ACTIVITIES
1. Accompanying change in the EU
2. Briefings for the European Parliament
IV.5. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
1. Newsletter
2. Website
3. Publications
IV.6. ACTIVITIES OF TEPSA’ S CONSTITUTIVE BODIES
1. Board 2. General Assembly
V. TEPSA’ S ACTIVITIES PER MONTHS
VI. MEMBER INSTITUTES AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
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« L'Europe ne se fera pas d'un coup, ni dans une construction d'ensemble : elle se fera par des réalisations concrètes, créant d'abord une solidarité de fait. »
Robert Schuman, Déclaration du 9 Mai 1950
I FOREWORD
The year 2007 has changed the face of the European Union considerably. Starting with the enlargement to include Romania and Bulgaria on 1 January 2007 and the enlargement of the Eurozone, making Slovenia the first of the new member states to adhere to the common currency, the borders of the EU have again been altered. The Schengen Agreement’s border controls were abolished on 21 December 2007 for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Cyprus, Slovenia and the Czech and Slovak Republic. These developments mean a systemic challenge TEPSA’s headquarters at the Fondation for European decision-making, and also the Universitaire, Rue d’Egmont, Brussels furthering of the European project through the elimination of old divisions within Europe.
Also in the context of deepening the European Union has made important steps in 2007. Besides the 50 th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome on 25 March 2007, the Treaty of Lisbon has been negotiated and signed, and is likely to enter into force on 1 January 2009. This success resolved the deadlock after the failure of the Constitutional Treaty due to the negative referenda in France and the Netherlands, enabling now the EU to advance its institutional architecture, modes of decision-making and policy areas.
In times where the “permissive consensus” of the public concerning European affairs is said to have come to an end, it is more and more important for independent analysts to assess developments on the European and national levels, and to give as far as possible advice to political, economic and societal actors. In this context, TEPSA has throughout 2007 furthered dialogue as one of its key instruments: with its member institutes, the European institutions, the public and media. It has contributed to current debates concerning European integration and also pointed to challenges which will eventually come up in the future.
In terms of its membership, TEPSA has expanded by including the “Institute of International Relations and Political Science”, Lithuania, as a member institute, and the “Centre International de Formation Européenne” (CIFE) as an associate member. This leads to TEPSA being composed of 29 member institutes and associated members throughout Europe, making it a leading and pluralistic research network in Europe. TEPSA furthermore plans to admit more member institutes in 2008 and is actively pursuing a dialogue with Maltese, Romanian and Slovakian candidates. Moreover, the activity of TEPSA’s briefings provided for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has brought different institutes into the network and enabled
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TEPSA to develop links with the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. Thus TEPSA has in 2007 again underlined its claim to be a truly “transeuropean” network.
Two events have shaped TEPSA’s calendar of activities to a considerable extent: The Pre-Presidency Conferences held in Lisbon in June 2007 and in Ljubljana in December 2007. These conferences have again brought together the different member institutes, the representatives of governments taking over the EU Presidency, media and civil society. They have also put TEPSA in a position to make the expertise of their researchers and members available at an early stage to political actors within the EU context and thus to provide advice to them.
TEPSA has with its programme in 2007 tried to balance different forms of activities, to shed light on various policy areas and to advance the discussions on the future design of the EU.
With this activity report, TEPSA highlights its past events and draws conclusions from what has been elaborated. The report is thus structured around the different lines of TEPSA’s work as a transeuropean network of research institutes, furthering cooperation and the development and dissemination of ideas in Europe.
Brussels, 21 January 2008
Graham Avery, Secretary General of TEPSA
Yvonne Nasshoven Assistant Secretary General
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II ABOUT TEPSA
GOALS AND ACTIONS
TEPSA has been established in 1974 with the goal to “study or organize research on problems relating to the development of European integration, based on human rights and democracy, to propose solutions, and to promote their taking into consideration by institutions, both private and public, at national or Community level, and to diffuse the results of its work.” (Article 3 of the statutes of the Trans European Studies Association)
TEPSA is a multinational network comprising 29 members. It aims at accomplishing its goals of analysis, assessment and advice, which have been the major guidelines for the activities of the TEPSA network in the past years. Following this approach, TEPSA provides high quality research on European integration in order to stimulate discussions on policies and political options for Europe.
The main channel for transferring ideas and results of research from the national to the European level and vice versa is TEPSA’s member institutes which operate independently but in line with TEPSA’s goals on the national and transnational level. The Trans European Policy Studies Association exemplifies the ‘bottom-up’ approach to European governance, contributes to the EU’s dialogue with citizens and reaches out to an informed debate in member states and applicant countries.
The activity of the TEPSA network has been accompanied over the past decades by a broad and target-group oriented communication and dissemination strategy. This includes a regular newsletter, publications and the use of mass communication such as the TEPSA website. Also TEPSA’s member institutes contribute with their own communication policies to the efficient dissemination of TEPSA’s work.
In 2007, TEPSA has been focusing particularly on the following priorities:
The critical analysis and assessment of selected policy areas of the European Union, mainly in the field of the EU foreign policy and on issues related to EU constitutional change
The linkage of citizens to the European Union and discussion of main policies of the European Union, mainly through TEPSA Friends meetings
The provision of advice on and analysis of current issues of the European Union by TEPSA’s Pre Presidency Conferences
TEPSA’ S INTERNAL ORGANISATION
The governing body of TEPSA is its Board which is composed of the Chairperson Prof. Wolfgang Wessels (Jean Monnet Chair, University of Cologne), the Secretary General, Graham Avery (Honorary Director General of the European Commission) and the following members: Prof. Gianni Bonvicini (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy), Andrew Duff (MEP), Dr. Gunilla Herolf (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Dr. Nikos Frangakis (Greek Centre of European Studies and Research), Prof. Iain Begg (London School of Economics, Great Britain), Jean-Victor Louis, Hanna Ojanen (Finnish Institute for International Affairs), and Dr. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (The College of Europe, Natolin, Poland).
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The decision-making structure furthermore consists of the General Assembly, composed of the representatives of all Member Institutes and Associate Member Institutes. TEPSA’s secretariat is based in Brussels, composed of the Secretary General and three assistants.
III EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In 2007, the Trans European Policy Studies Association has been responding to the EU’s main challenges , ready to evaluate and investigate at the internal and external level the key aspects and developments of EU integration.
TEPSA’s activities are supported by a grant received from the European Commission’s ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme. The grant has been especially useful to allow TEPSA to achieve its objective of supporting its Europe-wide network of member institutes in the implementation of ongoing projects, and in the preparation of applications for new projects.
TEPSA’s activities focused on the following elements:
• Pre Presidency Conferences These conferences took place in Lisbon in June 2007, and Ljubljana in December 2007.
• Citizens’ Europe In the field of “Citizen’s Europe” TEPSA undertakes a variety of activities such as its “TEPSA Friends” events, conferences and a joint project with its Bulgarian member, the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association.
• Cooperation with projects and networks of excellence TEPSA is an active partner in the network of excellence “EU-CONSENT” and the Franco-German initiative, THESEUS.
• Policy related activities Concerning policy-related activities, TEPSA has published a declaration on the occasion of the 50 th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and especially provided expertise for the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. TEPSA members have been able to take part in several conferences organised by the EU institutions.
• Communication Strategy TEPSA’s communication strategy consists of its bi-monthly newsletter, its website and selected TEPSA publications.
• Enlargement of TEPSA In order to optimize TEPSA’s outreach within an ever growing European Union, TEPSA’s membership was also enlarged in 2007. TEPSA is undertaking active efforts to enlarge its membership to include all the EU member states into its network. It presently comprises 29 institutes, of which 24 are full
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members in EU member sates, and 5 associated members (the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin, EIPA Maastricht, the Croatian Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, and CIFE). The General Assembly decided in December 2007 to accept a Lithuanian member, The Institute of International Relations & Political Science, Vilnius University and the Centre International de Formation européenne as an associate member. Search teams have been created to identify institutes in Malta, Slovakia and Romania. Actions are also taken to involve institutes in Turkey and other countries.
Search Teams:
Slovakia: Gunilla Herolf, SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden
Malta: Gianni Bonvicini, IAI, Rome, Italy
Romania: Gunilla Herolf, SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden
Turkey: Wolfgang Wessels, University of Cologne, Germany, and Andrew Duff, MEP, Cambridge, UK
TEPSA benefits from the support of the European Commission.
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IV TEPSA’ S ACTIVITIES IN 2007
The following sections give a detailed overview of TEPSA’s activities and their timeframe in 2007, according to the topics mentioned and including a presentation of TEPSA’s communication strategy.
IV.1. TEPSA PRE -PRESIDENCY CONFERENCES
The two TEPSA Pre-Presidency Conferences discussed the upcoming Presidency and their priorities in order to give TEPSA’s input into the half-year programme and formulate recommendations.
• 26 27 June 2007, Lisbon
The Portuguese Pre-Presidency Conference
This seminar, inaugurating Portugal’s Presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2007, was organised by TEPSA’s Portuguese member Institute IEEI (Instituto de Estudos Estrategicos e Internacionais) and the network of excellence EU- CONSENT as well as the Secretario de Estado dos Asuntos Europeus/MNE. The programme included sessions on institutional reform, enlargement, neighbourhood policy and the EU’s external action. In his keynote address Manuel Lobo Antunes, Secretary of State for European Affairs gave a wide-ranging explanation of the
Portuguese priorities for the upcoming Presidency.
Gunilla Herolf, Member of TEPSA’s Board, presented the following recommendations prepared by members of TEPSA and EU-CONSENT:
THE WAY FORWARD FOR EUROPE : EIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PORTUGUESE EU PRESIDENCY 2007
1) Even with the successful outcome of the European Council much remains to be done to complete the institutional reform. The Portuguese Presidency should aim at a rapid conclusion of the IGC and signature of the new Treaty in order to ensure the enlarged Union.s capacity to work efficiently and guarantee a high level of democratic accountability.
2) A high level Groupe de reflexion on the EU budget with a mandate to prepare the 2008/9 review of the EU budget should be established, chaired by a high profile figure such as a former prime minister or person of similar standing.
3) In further developing the EU.s energy policy, explicit priority should be given to embedding it in a smart growth strategy which focuses on investment in sustainable
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energy solutions. A smart growth strategy needs to be understood as a means of fostering the EU.s competitive position in the global market for sustainable technologies such as wind turbines, simultaneously supporting the Union.s commitment to climate protection.
4) The re-launched Lisbon strategy has made progress but it will be important to reinforce it in order to strengthen the focus on research and education in the EU when developing the next round of Integrated Guidelines for the period 2008-11. A first advance would be to ensure that the guidelines are more effectively integrated. Instead of being separate chapters for macro, micro and employment policies, there should be one coherent and integrated approach. Secondly, it will be important to include a focus on the reform of the quality and efficiency of public administration.
5) European crisis management should be moved to the centre of the debate again. Europe needs to develop a common strategy for its global security policy. furthermore, the EU’s capacity for external policy needs to be made more credible, more pro-active and more effective and should be regarded as a vital instrument for expressing Europe.s role and responsibility in the world. In order to do so, the civil-military cell should be reinforced in its role to make ESDP a coherent policy. More battle groups as well as more resources devoted to civilian tasks should be created.
6) The European Neighbourhood Policy needs new impetus and a clearer profile. It is essential to include it in a coherent European Security Strategy as well as in the EU.s enlargement strategy. The European Neighbourhood Policy should become a credible and effective instrument of a comprehensive European foreign and security policy in cooperation with the neighbours in the East and South 7) European policy on asylum and migration should be reinforced by the implementation of the Hague programme, accompanied by further efforts to communitarize the whole Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
8) A major step should be initiated regarding the establishment of a common European public space. The D programme of the Commission may be part of it, but should be supplemented with further efforts and programmes in order to secure more and better communication and exchange across national borders.
• 3 4 December 2007, Ljubljana
The Slovenian Pre - Presidency Conference
Under the title “Competitiveness, Globalisation and Cohesion: Priorities of the Slovenian Presidency”, the Slovenian Pre-Presidency Conference took place in the Hotel Union, Ljubljana. The Conference was organised by TEPSA’s Slovenian member institute, the Centre of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, in cooperation with TEPSA and the EU-CONSENT network of excellence. The organizer of the conference was Prof. Dr. Marian Svetlicic, Director of CIR.
On the occasion of launching the first Slovenian Presidency of the European Union, this event proposed five different sessions, which assessed the priorities of both the forthcoming Slovenian Presidency and of the EU for the following six months:
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• “Presidency Priorities”, In his key note speech , Prof. Dr. Dimitrij RUPEL , Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs, identified the key challenges for the Slovenian Presidency, the first of the so called new member states to hold the EU presidency.
• “Integration of South-Eastern Europe”, with the participation of politicians and experts from Dimitrij Rupel opens the Slovenian Western Balkan countries Pre-Presidency Conference
• “Enhancing Competitiveness by Investing in Education and R&D”, with the participation of Janez Potocnik, Member of the European Commission
• “New Financial Perspectives”, with the presentation of the report of the Slovenian task force on Financial Perspectives
• Concluding session on “The EU’s New Treaty: the Way Forward”
Jaap de Zwaan, Director of TEPSA’s Netherlands member institute Clingendael, presented the following recommendations prepared by Gunilla Herolf, SIPRI, and Graham Avery, Secretary General of TEPSA:
THE WAY FORWARD FOR EUROPE
SEVEN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL SLOVENIAN PRESIDENCY
Presented at TEPSA’s Pre-Presidency Conference Ljubljana, 3-4 December 2007
1. The Reform Treaty to be signed in Lisbon on 13 December needs to be ratified in 2008 so that the institutional reforms can finally come into force early in 2009. The process of ratification should be accompanied by good preparation for implementation of the Treaty, including the adaptation of the provisions for Freedom Security & Justice where the ‘third pillar’ will be abolished, and the creation of the European External Action Service to assist the new High Representative/Vice-President for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy.
2. The EU should press forward with implementation of the Hague Programme for freedom, security and justice . Although the Lisbon Treaty has not yet been signed, let alone entered into force, progress in this area is in the interest of the Union, its Member States and citizens. Priorities include evaluation of common measures adopted so far; implementation of the common external border arrangements in the new Member States (the former Schengen cooperation); realization of a system for common European asylum; reflection on a common approach to legal migration (linkage with the Lisbon Agenda); refinement of instruments for combating terrorism, and implementation of mutual recognition in the spheres of criminal law and criminal procedure. Moreover the external dimension - cooperation with third countries for example with regard to asylum and migration, and aspects regarding CFSP - requires full attention.
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3. The EU’s commitment to environmental protection and sustainable growth should be the basis for its internal and external policies in view of energy security . A strategy for enhancing the EU’s competitive position in the global market for sustainable technologies should underpin its efforts to deal with the consequences of climate change . Discussion of the proposals expected soon from the Commission should be a priority for the Slovenian Presidency, and its successors, with a view to decisions early in 2009.
4. There are potential inconsistencies between the aims, procedures and timetables of the Lisbon Strategy , the Sustainable Development Strategy and the Energy Policy for Europe . In the interests of efficient and effective policies affecting the supply-side of the EU economy, efforts should be made to reconcile the different strategies so as to establish a more coherent governance system.
5. The recent proposals from the Commission for improvement of the common agricultural policy (‘health-check’) should be addressed soon by the Council. The reforms of 2003 need to be updated and complemented to ensure that this policy, which occupies an important place in the EU’s budget, responds to the needs of consumers and of rural society, as well as the protection of the environment
6. The EU should maintain the enlargement process on the basis of its renewed consensus, and prospective members must continue with the necessary political and economic reforms. Reconciliation with neighbours, externally and internally, including respect for minorities, intercultural dialogue and comprehension of the past, is a precondition for European integration. In the Western Balkans the Stabilisation and Association Process needs to be extended; Croatia’s progress on the path to membership can encourage the others; a solution of the Kosovo question will bring stability to the region and allow Serbia to confirm its European vocation, while state- building is the priority in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and better governance in Montenegro, Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
7. The EU should urgently develop a common strategy towards Russia , reversing the trend of recent years towards bilateral relationships. A strengthened relationship should be based on the principle of mutual trust and characterised by respect for democracy, openness and human rights. It should aim to improve relations in trade and energy and other cooperation between the EU and Russia.
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IV.2. CITIZEN ’S EUROPE
1. TEPSA Friends meetings
In 2007, TEPSA has organized a total of 12 TEPSA Friends meetings, partially in co- operation with the Fondation Universitaire. These conferences provide a platform for debate with distinguished personalities and experts, and with TEPSA’s member institutes.
TEPSA has been able to welcome panelists and speakers on a number of different topics throughout the year. It has taken up topics of relevance fur the current discussions on the future of European integration and tried to both apply a geographical and policy-field oriented balance.
27 February 2007 (TEPSA Friends with Fondation Universitaire, Brussels) Germany and Europe Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Wessels, University of Cologne, Chairperson of TEPSA This TEPSA breakfast event focused on Germany’s role in the European Union, especially considering Germany’s Presidency in the first half of 2007.
28 February 2007 (TEPSA Friends, Brussels) Constitution Plus, renegotiating the Treaty Speaker: Andrew Duff, Member of the European Parliament Commentator: Michael Stabenow, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Brussels Office Andrew Duff, a member of the Board of TEPSA, played a leading part in the European Convention. His new book “Constitution Plus”, which he presented at this TEPSA event, is an expanded and updated version of the views expounded in ‘Plan B’ published in 2006.
8 March 2007 (TEPSA Friends with Fondation Universitaire, Brussels) L’Europe et la recherche Speaker: Philippe Busquin, former Member of the Eur opean Commission Philippe Busquin, who was member of the European Commission until 2004, gave a detailed overview on the challenges and opportunities of re search policies in Europe.
20 March 2007 (TEPSA Friends, Brussels) EU Foreign Policy A Responsible Europe? Dr Hartmut Mayer, Lecturer in Politics, Oxford University Discussant: Alar Olljum, DG for External Relations, European Commission Dr Mayer’s recent book analyses the ethical foundation of the European Union’s handling of external policy, and identifies moral principles that could serve as guidelines for its activity in global affairs and regional cooperation. These ideas and
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questions linked to the issue of “A responsible Europe” were discussed with the participants.
10 May 2007 (TEPSA Friends, Brussels) Europe’s Multilingualism Speaker: Leonard Orban, Commissioner for Multilin gualism Languages are one of Europe’s cultural strengths. In 2007 there are 23 official languages – since the founding of the EU, their number has quintupled. But is diversity a weakness? With citizens of so many languages, can Europe ever have a common political culture? These and other questions were the topic of this TEPSA event.
2 July 2007 (TEPSA Friends, Brussels) France’s European Policy Speakers: Bruno Cautrès, Sciences-Po, Paris Renaud Dehousse, Director of the European Studies Center, Paris Wolfgang Wessels, Jean Monnet Professor, University of Cologne Piere Moscovici, Vice-President of the European Parliament Jean-Louis Bourlanges, MEP The results of the Presidential elections in May 2007 have consequences for France’s European policies. Analysts from TEPSA’s French member Sciences Po and other commentators examined the situation and prospects.
20 September 2007 (TEPSA Friends, Brussels) L’Euro : Son Impact et Son Avenir Speaker : Benjamin Angel, Conseiller du Commissaire aux affaires économiques et monétaires a la Commission Européenne This conference was organised in conjunction with the Ligue européenne de coopération économique and treated the question of the impact of the euro on Europe’s citizen and the possible enlargement of the Eurozone.
8 October 2007 (TEPSA Friends with Fondation Universitaire, Brussels) Europe at the crossroads Speaker: Philippe Maystadt, President of the European Investment Bank and former Minister of Finance of Belgium. Philippe Maystadt gave his view on the current developments in Europe.
19 October (TEPSA Friends with Fondation Universitaire, Brussels) The Role of Belgium in NATO Speaker: Frans van Daele, Permanent Representative of Belgium to NATO Although Belgium is a small country, it plays a considerable role in international organisations of all kind, such as also NATO. Still, Frans van Daele stressed that Belgium could be a more integral part of the association if it would find more political stability.
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19 November 2007 (Brussels) The Reform Treaty: an assessment Andrew Duff, TEPSA Board Member, and MEP, gave a talk to TEPSA Friends on 19 November 2007 on the recently agreed Treaty of Lisbon. Andrew Duff was directly involved in the negotiations of the text, as he represented the European Parliament at the recent Intergovernmental Conference. The lead er of the British Liberal Democrat MEPs and Spokesman on Constitutional Affairs for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) expressed his views, satisfactions and concerns about the text. Though imperfect, he said he was satisfied with the outcome, which marks a historical step for European integration. He pointed out to the efforts that now need to be put in the ratification process, and stressed that skilful campaigns are still needed before we have the Treaty enter into force.
27 November (TEPSA friends with Fondation Universitaire, Brussels) La Chine Speaker: Ambassador Zhang Qiyue, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Belgium The Ambassadrice gave an explanation on the cultural traditions in China and addressed some of the prejudices often mentioned. She also gave her view on the role of China in the European Union, especially in view of the economic relationship.
5 December 2007 (Brussels) Enlargement: how has it affected the EU’s decision making? Speaker: Helen Wallace Helen Wallace presented her analysis on the adaptation of the EU institutions to enlargement since May 2004. She assessed the influence of the recent enlargement of the EU on the decision making process and the impact of the 12 new Member States on the decision making mechanisms.
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2. Other meetings and conferences
19 April 2007 (Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) Citizen’s Attitudes and Identities in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria The panel of speakers at this event at the Veliko Tarnovo University included TEPSA member Jan Karlas from the Institute of International Relations, Prague. The conference itself was organised by TEPSA in cooperation with the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA) and in the framework of the joint BECSA- TEPSA PHARE project.
4 May 2007 (Sofia, Bulgaria) The future of the EU Constitutional Treaty Speakers at this event at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” included TEPSA member Brendan Donnelly, the Federal Trust, London. The conference was organised by TEPSA, with the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA).
18-19 May 2007 (Sofia, Bulgaria) European Neighbourhood Policy Speakers at this event at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, included TEPSA member Andres Kasekamp, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute. The conference itself was organised by TEPSA in cooperation with the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA) and in the framework of the joint BECSA- TEPSA PHARE project.
8-9 June 2007 (Varna, Bulgaria) Bulgaria’s participation in the CFSP and the ENP Speakers at this event at Varna Free University, included TEPSA Secretary General Graham Avery. The conference itself was organised by TEPSA in cooperation with the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA) and in the framework of the joint BECSA-TEPSA PHARE project.
11 September 2007 (Brussels) Europe for Citizens Consultation Meeting As an active member of the European Commission’s programme “Europe for citizens”, TEPSA took part in a meeting of organizations involved in the project with representatives of the Commission in Brussels. Besides the launching of a structured dialogue with European organizations taking part in the programme for the promotion of Active European Citizenship, and an exchange of views on the implementation and simplification measures introduced, information was given on the future development and the upcoming European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
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3-4 October 2007 (Lisbon, Portugal) EUROMESCO Annual Conference TEPSA was involved in this conference through the participation of its Board member Gunilla Herolf. The conference was focusing on the topic “A common agenda against Intolerance: Human Rights as a Shared Concern” and aimed at a dialogue between the EUROMESCO network and a broad range of political and economic actors with regard to current developments in the Euro-Mediterranean area.
13 October 2007 (Rome) Integrating Europe with what aim? The future of the constitutional process and Europe’s political aims Speaker: Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg TEPS A organised this colloquium with the collaboration of CIFE (Centre International de Formation Européenne) and La Sapienza, on the
future of on-going the reform process in the EU. Two round tables were convened, one on the Reform of the Treaty and its place in the constitutional process, and the other on the priorities for Europe’s action in the political, economic and ecological fields.
30-31 October 2007 (Brussels) The EU as a global actor Dr. Paul Luif from the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna, and Prof. Simon Duke from EIPA, Maastricht, took part in the Commission’s preparatory seminar “The EU as a global actor”, in which the role of think tanks with regard to reacting to situations of crisis was considered. The seminar involved also Javier Solana, who discussed the most recent foreign policy questions.
8-9 November 2007 (Brussels) Citizen’s Agora In order to give civil society the possibility to express its views on the Lisbon Treaty before issuing its own assessment of the text, the European Parliament launched the first “Citizen’s Agora”, in line with its involvement in the European Commission’s “Europe for citizens” programme. TEPSA was represented by Yvonne Nasshoven, Research Assistant. Five different workshops focused on specific questions such as the tasks of the European Union, rights of the citizens, new tools offered by the Lisbon Treaty or the borders of the European Union. As guest speaker also Andrew Duff, Member of the Board of TEPSA, took part in the Citizen’s Agora
12-13 November 2007 (Brussels) From Early Warning to Early Action Yvonne Nasshoven, Research Assistant, attended for TEPSA the Commission’s Conference “From Early Warning to Early Action”. The conference addressed in different panels issues such as “Creating Partnerships in Peace-building”, “Security Sector Reform”, or, with the participation of the former Director of
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TEPSA’s Portuguese Member Institute, Alvaro de Vasconcelos - now Director of the Institute for Security Studies, Paris - the issues of “Knowledge Management: Operationalising the expert networks.” This panel emphasized especially the necessity for think tanks and research networks to develop, taking on an integrated approach, policy-oriented research, to involve extra-European expertise and to maintain close relations with the political decision-making process.
16 November (Vilinius) The EU’s Impact on changing Political and Cultural Identities In view of its prospective membership of the TEPSA network, The Institute of International Relations & Political Science, Vilnius University, with the Lithuanian Political Science Association held an annual conference at Vilnius University. The theme of the conference was the “EU’s Impact on the Changing Political and Cultural Identities of the Member States.”
19 – 20 November 2007 (Brussels) EU – Japan Conference TEPSA cooperated with the ‘Université Libre de Bruxelles’ and other institutions to organize the 10 th annual conference on EU – Japan relations in Brussels on 19 th and 20 th November. Graham Avery (Secretary General of TEPSA) and Christian Frank (Institute d’Etudes Europèennes, ex – Secretary General of TEPSA, Universitè Catholique de Louvain) contributed to a session on ‘The future of EU and its impact on the Japan – EU strategic partnership’
13 December 2007 (Brussels) The Western Balkans and Turkey: Progress and Prospects This workshop, held in the framework of TEPSA’s preparation of briefings for the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, brought together researchers working on this issue as well as representatives of the European Parliament’s policy units and the European Commission. TEPSA was also pleased to be able to welcome the former Ambassador of Bosnia-Herzegowina to the EU, Lidija Topic. The session focused especially on the Pre-Accession Instrument of the EU.
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3. BECSA TEPSA project
“Networking for Citizens and Neighbours – Networking for Europe”
In 2006, TEPSA and BECSA started a joint project “ Networking for Citizens and Neighbours – Networking for Europe ” under the PHARE – Civil Society programme 2004 of the EU. The programme continued in 2007 and will finish during the first half of 2008.
The overall objectives of the PHARE-project are to contribute to the stability of democracy in Bulgaria by engaging civil society in the making of the country’s European policy and by promoting the citizens’ voice in the formulation of policies and decision taking, laying the foundations for a participatory democracy, and to enhance the capacities of the Bulgarian NGO-community for substantive participation in the integration process as a new EU member state. BECSA, in cooperation with TEPSA and several member institutes, has organised a series of events and conferences in 2007:
• 19 April 2007 (Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) Citizen’s Attitudes and Identities in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria
• 4 May 2007 (Sofia, Bulgaria) The future of the EU Constitutional Treaty
• 18-19 May 2007 (Sofia, Bulgaria) European Neighbourhood Policy
• 8-9 June 2007 (Varna, Bulgaria) Bulgaria’s participation in the CFSP and the ENP
• 7 December 2007 The ENP: The Time to Deliver
• 14 December 2007 Citizens' Europe? Reflections on the Implications of the Reform Treaty
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IV.3. CO-OPERATION WITH PROJECTS AND NETWORKS OF EXCELLENCE
1. EU CONSENT
As partner within the FP6 Network of Excellence ‘Wider Europe, deeper integration? Constructing Europe Network’ (EU-CONSENT), TEPSA has continued to contribute to the Joint Programme of Activities of this Network of Excellence.
EU-CONSENT, which was initiated by TEPSA in 2004/2005, integrates a broad range of research communities, including individual experts, universities, research institutes and networks involved in multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional and multi-national research on “widening” and “deepening” of the European Union.
In terms of EU-CONSENT’s character as ‘network of networks’, TEPSA contributed to enhancing the network’s coherence. Due to its Brussels location TEPSA has been responsible for organizing the annual EU CONSENT plenary conferences. The 3 rd annual plenary conference has been successfully organized in October 2007.
Almost all of TEPSA’s member institutes are involved as partners within EU-CONSENT, which represents a mutual benefit to both networks in the sense of a catalyzer, and initiating functions for common activities.
TEPSA contributed to the organization and took part in the following EU-CONSENT events in 2007:
• 6-7 March 2007 (Brussels) Reviewing the EU’s Budgetary System Workshop organised with TEPSA by the EU-CONSENT network of excellence The budgetary review planned for 2008 offers the chance for a fundamental reflection on future options. How can the European budget create added-value for citizens? Academics, officials of the EU institutions and politicians were invited.
• 18-19 October 2007 (Brussels) Plenary session of EU CONSENT: Wider Europe, deeper integration? The network’s third Plenary Conference in October 2007 provided an overview of the results achieved so far and the major aims and activities for the future. More than 100 participants from almost all partner institutes (including TEPSA institutes) participated in the event hosted and co-organised by TEPSA.
The conference commenced with two panels on major cross-cutting topics which will be of relevance in the next years of the project: ‘Deepening: Constitutional and Institutional Change’ and ‘Widening: Enlargements and ENP’. With keynote speeches of Alex Stubb, MEP (panel on ‘Deepening’) and Maria Karasinska Fendler (European Institute, Lodz) as well as Ettore Greco (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome) (panel on ‘Widening’) the panels discussed the importance of these new thematic threads within the project in the light of the European Council meeting taking place simultaneously in Lisbon agreeing on a final version of the Reform Treaty.
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Alex Stubb had a clear answer to the network’s overall topic ‘Wider Europe, deeper integration?’ He simply replied: “Yes, please!”, and elaborated further on his federal point of view on the three main current challenges the Union is facing. During the second panel on widening, Maria Karasinska Fendler elaborated on the array of sticks and carrots the EU has at its disposal in the development of an effective Neighbourhood Policy, concluding that the lack of a concrete institutional perspective in ENP (since accession is explicitly excluded) may well act as a hindrance to the EU’s efforts towards inducing reform in its neighbouring states.
Ettore Greco discussed security implications of ENP, stressing the need to take such issues seriously and About EU CONSENT use them as a starting point in addressing grievances in the implementation of Neighbourhood Policy. In The project integrates a broad range of research communities, particular he emphasized the necessity to formulate a including individual experts, coherent policy towards Russia as the main actor on universities, research institutes the Union’s eastern frontier. and networks involved in research on widening and This year’s annual lecture was given by a colleague deepening of the European from the TEPSA network – Ian Manners from the Union. The open network aims at improving the understanding of Danish Institute for International Studies. In his key European processes and ‘lessons of the past and visions for the future’ he challenges, but also to create a focussed on four major topics: The past as a ‘foreign forum, easily accessible for country’, a cleavage between a cosmopolitan and a researchers, students and a communitarian strain in current European thought, broader public on all major dimensions of the EU integration five scenarios of further development and, finally, process. shared visions of the EU between the state, supranational and transnational. As an introduction, A particular focus is on the he concentrated on the main narratives of the EU’s relationship between widening past which he named ‘peace’, ‘prosperity’ and and deepening of the Union and a ‘progress’. reflection on the Union’s ultimate capacity to enlarge. To this aim In the concluding lunchtime debate on Friday Iain scenarios for the future shape of Begg moderated a lively discussion between Maria the EU are being discussed. Jepsen and Loukas Tsoukalis on the one hand and Jacques Pelkmans and Simon Bulmer on the other hand around the proposition “ L’Europe sera sociale ou ne sera pas ”. While the audience was still undecided after the first round of arguments, the proponents of ‘Social Europe’ (Jepsen and Tsouskalis) convinced a majority of the audience through a measured approach of what such a project may look like.
The conference was successful in giving new input and ideas to the participants, bringing people together and showing the main streams of work of EU-CONSENT within the next two years.
20 December 2007 (Brussels) Task Force Research Frame – First Workshop The task force convened in order to discuss possible synergies of connecting results from the work of EU-CONSENT thematic groups on “deepening” and “widening”. The meeting identified a number of questions clustered around a need to define the central concepts more clearly and to draw conclusions on the nature of their interconnectedness.
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2. THESEUS
About THESEUS Since more than two years, TEPSA is a partner in the Emerging from a Franco-German activities of THESEUS. Its main activities, initiative, THESEUS considers coordinated at the University of Cologne, SciencePo itself as European network of Paris and supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, thinkers, actors and ideas, whose include a summer school and meetings of young aim is to promote the mutual futures responsibles. understanding of societies in Europe. THESEUS is striving for an open and constructive dialogue The summer school will take place in Brussels on a about the future challenges of regular basis and is structured around a key question Europe. of the current political debate.
TEPSA contributed to the organization and took part in the following THESEUS events in 2007:
5 February 2007 (Brussels) Steering Committee of the Theseus project
1-7 July 2007 (Brussels) THESEUS Summer School for Young Leaders
The first THESEUS summer school was organised in Brussels from 01/07/2007 to 07/07/2007 with the collaboration of TEPSA. The THESEUS Project Manager Anja Thomas writes “We thank the TEPSA members for the nominations for participants that you submitted to the selection committee. We were able to include most of your nominees.” The THESEUS Summer Schools tackle each year an internal or external challenge which Europe faces. The aim of the Summer School 2007 was to shed light on the complexity of the problems underlying the debate on energy policy and climate change. Both topics raise questions ranging from economics and geopolitics to environmental policy: What are the economics of energy markets? What are the main challenges for the security of Europe.s energy supply? And how can politics cope with the consequences of climate change? Applying both an analytical and a normative approach, the Summer School featured speakers and high-level experts from international organisations, research, business, politics and NGOs. In the course of the week the participants who came from different professional and academic backgrounds elaborated a THESEUS declaration on European energy policy and climate change, which can be found on TEPSA’s website ( www.tepsa.be ).
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IV.4. POLICY -RELATED AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. Accompanying change in the EU
25 March 2007 (Rome) 50 th Anniversary of Treaty of Rome TEPSA made a declaration marking this event and its significa nce for the people of Europe. It was published in Rome on the occasion of a historians’ conference, and promulgated simultaneously by all TEPSA’s member institutes in their different countries, as well as transmitted to the Presidents of the EU institutions and to the President of the Italian Republic.
50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TREATY OF ROME
DECLARATION
On 25 th March 2007 we mark the 50 th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty that played a key role in the process of European integration, beginning with the European Communities and leading to today’s European Union.
For TEPSA and its members it is an occasion to reflect on the past and also on the Union’s situation and prospects in the 21 st century.
The results of the Treaty of Rome have been extraordinary. European integration has proved so effective and attractive that in 50 years it has tripled its population and quadrupled the number of its member states.
In the 1950s, only a few visionaries believed that the Treaty could lead to:
- the progressive integration of the economies of Europe’s states; - the development of a system for common political decisions in the interests of Europe’s peoples; - the peaceful reunification of the East and West of Europe’s continent.
These dreams of the EU’s founding fathers have now been realised.
After the conflict and disorder of Europe’s wars in the first half of the 20 th century, the EU’s development has coincided with the longest period of peace that Europe’s people have ever known. Its institutional framework has helped to reconcile many of their historical problems, and allowed the member states – big and small – to cooperate in a non-hegemonic system of governance. This process has accompanied the greatest increase in social and economic welfare that Europe has ever experienced, with the development of a single market of nearly 500 million people, and the creation of a single currency, the euro.
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The existence of today’s Europe – united, free, and at peace with itself – is an achievement that deserves to be celebrated by Europe’s citizens and by its partners. Throughout the world it is seen as the most successful model of regional integration.
But the new generation, which has never known war in Europe, has more expectations. It wants the EU to provide a framework in which:
- The benefits of economic prosperity can be shared in a way that corresponds to European concepts of social justice - Solutions can be found to common problems that cannot be handled at national level: that means challenges of the environment, problems of transnational crime and terrorism, migration, energy, and many others - Europe’s voice can be heard in world affairs for the defence of European interests and the projection of European values - in conflict resolution, peace-keeping, aid for development, and human rights
To fulfil these aims, the EU needs to pursue its institutional and constitutional development, providing for effective decision-making at the supranational level while respecting the principle of subsidiarity. The Constitutional Treaty signed by all member states offered necessary reforms in the functioning and democratic legitimacy of the EU. Our leaders must find a way ahead to ensure that those improvements can be realised.
The EU’s process of deepening has often gone hand in hand with its widening to include new members, strengthening its unity and European values. In due course it will welcome other European countries that fully satisfy the conditions for membership.
Today we reflect on the past and look to the future. We cannot predict what will be the state of the European Union in 50 years from now. But we resolve to support the continuing development of European integration in ways that contribute to our common ideals of liberty and democracy.
This declaration was prepared by the Board of TEPSA with the support of members.
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2. Briefings for the European Parliament
Under the framework contract between TEPSA and the European Parliament, TEPSA, with the support of its member institutes, has delivered a series of reports and studies in the course of 2007 to the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, giving advice on issues of the external policies of the European U nion. In a number of cases, the authors have presented their reports to meetings of Committees in the European Parliament in Brussels.
The briefings prepared can be grouped in the following categories:
a) Reports for the European Parliament on the ENP, the Black Sea Region and the Western Balkan
All reports of this series have been delivered to the European Parliament:
• “THE CASE FOR OPENING THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN BORDER”
The lead author is Nathalie Tocci , Istituo Affari Internazionali in Rome, with co- authors Burcu Gültekin Punsmann, Liciana Simao , and Nicolas Tavitian .
• “THE COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE ENP FOR THE EU'S EASTERN PARTNERS”
The lead author is Petr Kratochvíl, Institute of International Relations in Prague with co-author Barbara Lippert .
• “THE EASTERN EU NEIGHBOURHOOD - AN AREA OF COMPETING POLICIES: SHARED NEIGHBOURHOOD BETWEEN THE EU AND RUSSIA”
The lead author is Piret Ehin , Estonian Foreign Policy Institute with co-author Graham Avery .
• “THE ENP: VISIBILITY AND PERCEPTIONS IN THE PARTNER COUNTRIES”
The author is Annegret Bendiek , Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin. ⋅ • “THE EASTERN EU NEIGHBOURHOOD: HOW TO ENHANCE THE EU’S PARTNERS’ OWNERSHIP OF THE ENP”
The author is Krassimir Y. Nikolov , Bulgarian European Community Studies Association.
• “THE RUSSIAN ECONOMIC PENETRATION IN MONTENEGRO”
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The lead author is Matija Rojec , Center for International Relations of the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, with co-authors Mojmir Mrak , Tamás Szemlér, and Tamás Novák .
⋅ • “THE AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE AND THE BLACK SEA REGION”
The author is Vladimir Shopov , Bulgarian European Community Studies Association.
• “BLACK SEA REGIONAL POLICY APPROACH: A POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR TO EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY” The author is Burcu Gültekin Punsmann Center for European Studies at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara .
• “REGIONAL COOPERATION IN THE BLACK SEA AREA: ANALYSIS OF THE OPPORTUNITIES TO FOSTER SYNERGIES IN THE REGION”
The lead author is Krassimir Y. Nikolov , Bulgarian European Community Studies Association , with co-author Burcu Gültekin Punsmann .
• “ENSURING DEMOCRACY AND EFFECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION IN THE BLACK SEA REGION”
The author is Elitsa Markova , Open Society Institute in Sofia.
• “A COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE ENP FOR THE EU'S SOUTHERN PARTNERS”
The lead author is Michele Comelli , Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome with co- author Maria Cristina Paciello .
• “THE EU PRESENCE IN A POST-STATUS KOSOVO-CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES”
The lead author is Tamas Szemlér, Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , with co-authors Reljic Calic, Tamás Novák, and Peter Schmidt
• “THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM PROCESS IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA”
The lead author is Tomislav Marsic Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin, and Joseph Marko.
Some of these reports have already been published on the European Parliament website at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/eStudies.do?languageEN
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Hearings in the European Parliament
In addition, the following authors have been invited by the European Parliament to present the result of their studies:
On 4 October 2007 , the following TEPSA authors were invited by the Foreign Affairs Committee: Burcu Gültekin Punsmann gave a presentation on the “Black Sea Regional Policy Approach: a potential contributor to Eu ropean energy security”. The same day, Krassimir Nikolov presented his study on “Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea Area: Analysis of the Opportunities to Foster Synergies in the Region”, and Vladimir Shopov , on “The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the Black Sea Region”.
On 7 November 2007 , on the occasion of a meeting of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Parliament Delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, Burcu Gültekin Punsmann and Nicolas Tavitian, co-authors of a study coo rdinated by Nathalie Tocci on “The case for opening the Turkish-Armenian border”, presented the results of their work to the Members of the European Parliament.
On 27 November 2007 , Josef Marko and Tomislav Marsic presented the result of their study on “The Constitutional Reform Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina” to the Foreign Affairs Committee. This hearing took place ahead of the meeting with EU Special Representative for Bosnia Herzegovina Miroslav Lajcak.
On 18 December , Tamas Szemler presented the results of his study on the role of the EU in a post Status Kosovo at a hearing organised by the working group on the Western Balkans of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired by Hannes Swoboda and Joost Lagendijk.
b) Reports for the European Parliament on the Pre Accession Strategy
The European Parliament has asked TEPSA to produce a series of country reports on the candidate and potential candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
TEPSA has identified the team of authors, who met for a coordination meeting organised by TEPSA on 13 December 2007in Brussels. The reports will be delivered to the European Parliament in April 2008.
Briefing Authors
Regional Burcu Gültekin Punsmann ( Center for European Studies Cooperation Faculty of Economic and Administrative sciences Middel East Technical University Eskisehir Yolu, Ankara)
Tamás Szemlér (Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
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Tomislav Marsic (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin)
Florian Trauner (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)
Albania Visnja Samardzija (Institute for International Relations, (IMO), Zagreb)
Henriette Riegler (Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), Vienna) Bosnia Tamás Szemlér (Institute for World Economics of the Herzegovina Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Mladen Stanicic (Institute for International Relations, ( IMO), Zagreb) Croatia Tom Lynch (Institute of European Affairs, Dublin)
Visnja Samardzija (Institute for International Relations, (IMO), Zagreb) Kosovo Henriette Riegler (Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), Vienna)
Filip Tesar (Institute of International Relations, Prague) Macedonia Florian Trauner (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)
Tom Lynch (Institute of European Affairs, Dublin)
Montenegro Filip Tesar (Institute of International Relations, Prague)
Marcus Delacor (Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Berlin) Serbia Marcus Delacor (Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Berlin)
Tomislav Marsic (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin)
c) Reports for the European Parliament on Turkey Another 3 briefings on Turkey have been ordered by the European Parliament, on the following topics:
TEPSA has identified the team of authors. The reports will be delivered to the European Parliament in January 2008.
Briefing Author
The influence of Costas Melakopides (Cyprus Institute of Mediterranean, the Turkish European, and International Studies (KIMEDE)) military on political agenda Sait Ak it (Center for European Studies METU (Ankara)) setting in the
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country
Religious Riva Kastoryano (Science Po Paris) freedom and the situation of Kıvanç Ulusoy (Center for European Studies METU religious (Ankara)) minorities in Turkey Burcu Gültekin Punsmann (Center for Eur opean Studies METU (Ankara))
Cengiz Günay (OIIP Austrian Institute for International Affairs) Social dialogue Georgios Glynos (Greek Centre of European Studies and and its Research (EKEME)) contribution to social cohesion in Michael Kaeding (European Institute for Public Turkey Administration (EIPA))
Đdil Aybars (Center for European Studies METU (Ankara))
3. Monitoring calls for tender
The TEPSA secretariat has revived the service of monitoring calls for tender for the information of the TEPSA network . It undertakes three forms of action:
• Information to the member institutes to improve their access to calls for tender of the European institutions and enable them to take an initiative • If the call for tender or proposal would be interesting for a group of member institutes or researchers, they can contact the TEPSA office to find possible collaborators, or in certain cases make a collective initiative coordinated by TEPSA • In case there are ideas for a project funded by the EU, or from national sources or organizations other than the EU, TEPSA may be contacted in order to look for partners; we will send the call via our mailing list to member institutions and ask for participation.
IV.5. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
1. Newsletter
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IV.5. COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
2. Newsletter
The TEPSA newsletter, accessible to all citizens through the TEPSA-website, is published bi-monthly and aims at giving an overview of TEPSA’s work, ongoing projects and publications by its member institutes. Furthermore it presents interviews with personalities, giving their views on European integration and current questions in the context of the European Union.
The newsletter has demonstrated to be an effective channel of communication, allowing for a structural and efficient internal communication which is an important element in a network of 29 members spread all across Europe.
Each newsletter lists the current activities of the partner institutes such as recently or to be organized workshops and confe rences and recently published articles and books.
In 2007, five newsletters have been disseminated to TEPSA members :
February 2007 TEPSA Newsletter
May 2007 TEPSA Newsletter Interview with Jacques Vandamme, a founder of TEPSA
July 2007 TEPSA Newsletter Interview with Gianni Bonvicini, Director of IAI, Rome
October 2007 TEPSA Newslett er Interview with Krassimir Nikolov, Director of BECSA, Sofia
November 2007 TEPSA Newsletter Interview with Robert Toulemon, a pioneer of European integration
2. Website
In view of the improvement of TEPSA’s communication strategy, the TEPSA website is being updated. It will have a new structure and an improved appearance.
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3. Publications
TEPSA featured on its newsletter publications of its member institutes, dealing with selected priority topics. This allows each member institute to contribute according to its individual field of expertise, and mirror the TEPSA network to a broad public.
TEPSA furthermore published in December the paper by Helen Wallace “Adapting to Enlargement of the European Union: Institutional Practice since May 2004”, Trans European Policy Studies Association, Brussels, 2007.
Furthermore, TEPSA members have published the following articles (in alphabetical order):
Agh , A., ‘Eastern enlargement and the future of the EU27: EU foreign policy in a global world’, in: Together for Europe , Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 2006. Avery , G., ‘An ever-wider Europe? Where will the EU's borders end?’, in: Challenge Europe, EPC’s Policy Journal, Brussels January 2007, www.epc.eu . Avery , G., The EU Foreign Service: how to build a more effective common policy , EPC Working Paper No.28, November 2007, available at http://www.epc.eu/TEWN/pdf/555858396_EPC%20Working%20Paper%2028%20The %20EU%20Foreign%20Service.pdf. Boromisa, A.M. (ed.) , Completing Eastern Enlargement (including Bulgaria and Romania) and its effects on the Accession of Croatia , Proceedings Fourth International Conference Pécs Initiative, Hanns Seidel Stiftung, Zagreb 2007. Boromisa, A.M. (ed.), Enlarging EU: macroeconomic and Firm level – experience and expectations , Bilateral meeting, 27 October 2006 Sofia, IWE and Institute for World Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Economic Studies Institute of Economics of BAS, Volume XVI, Nr. 1, 2007. Comelli , M., Il nuovo Trattato di riforma dell’Ue e la politica estera e di sicurezza europea: cosa cambia?, study carried out for the Italian Senate on the Reform Treaty, available at: http://www.senato.it/documenti/repository/lavori/affariinternazionali/approfondimenti/ 78.pdf. Comelli, M., Un passo avanti per la politica estera comune , available at: http://www.affarinternazionali.it/articolo.asp?ID=657. Deloche–Gaudez , F., Le veto, les peuples et les mots – les problèmes que le traité réformateur ne règle pas , available at http://www.portedeurope.org/spip.php?article3544. Dezséri , K. (ed.), New Modes of Governance and the EU Structural and Cohesion Policy in the New Member States , Akadémia Kiadó, Budapest 2007. Donnelly, B. , The Reform Treaty: Small Step or Giant Leap? , available at http://www.fedtrust.co.uk/uploads/Commentary1_October_07.pdf.
Duff , A., A primer on the EU’s Reform Treaty. The Mandate of the Intergovernmental Conference , available at http://www.eurointelligence.com/article.581+M51519c2ba27.0.html.
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EU Watch 25/27 n°4, edited by Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin, in the framework of EU-CONSENT, January 2007, www.eu-consent.net. Fóti, K.; Inotai, A. ; Simai, M. (eds.), Epochal Change in the World Economy, Past and Prospects, IWE, Budapest 2007. Inotai , A., The European Union and Southeastern Europe - Troubled Waters Ahead? P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brussels 2007. Linsenmann, I.; Meyer, C.; Wessels, W. (eds.), Economic Government of the EU. A balance sheet of New Modes of Policy Coordination , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2007. Louis , J.-V., ‘The Legal Foundations of the SGP in Primary and Secondary Law’, in: Breuss, F. (ed.), The Stability and Growth Pact. Experiences and Future Aspects , Springer, Wien, New York 2007, pp. 3-31 O’ Broin, P.; Donoghue, J. , Policy brief on the Lisbon European Council meeting , available at http://www.iiea.com/images/managed/publications_attachments/Policy%20Brief%20Li sbon(final).pdf. Ojanen , H., ‘The EU’s Responsibility for Global Security and Defence’, in: Mayer, H., Vogt, H. (ed.), A Responsible Europe? Ethical Foundations of EU External Affairs, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2006. Palmer , J., Perspectives for the European Union after the Lisbon European Council , available at http://www.fedtrust.co.uk/uploads/Commentary2_October_07.pdf. Rácz , M., Uniós kihívások és válaszutak a 2000-es években. Az egységes belso piac és a közös pénz ’ (The Challenges of the European Union and responses in the 2000’s – the Single Market and the common currency), Akadémia Kiadó, Budapest 2007. Tocci, N. (ed.) , Conditionality, Impact and Prejudice in EU-Turkey Relations , IAI- TEPAV Report, IAI, Rome 2007. Wessels, W.; Faber, A. , ’Vom Verfassungskonvent zurück zur ‚Methode Monnet’? Die Entstehung der ‚Road map’ zum EU-Reformvertrag unter deutscher Ratspräsidentschaft’, in: integration , Vol. 4, 2007.
Information on the Lisbon Treaty
In addition, TEPSA has regularly circulated to its Member Institutes the latest publication on the ongoing constitutional changes in the EU. In the annex is the list of contributions produced by TEPSA Members, and circulated to the network.
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IV.6. ACTIVITIES OF TEPSA’ S CONSTITUTIVE BODIES
1. Board
TEPSA is coordinating its internal cooperation via meetings of the Board . Board meetings serve to the purpose of deciding financial and administrative and structural matters within a smaller group before communicating the issue to the General Assembly for final decisions:
6 March 2007 (Brussels) TEPSA Board Meeting
26 June 2007 (Lisbon) TEPSA Board Meeting (open to all TEPSA members)
17 October 2007 (Brussels) TEPSA Board Meeting
2. General Assembly
The General Assembly which takes decisions on TEPSA’s main activities normally meets at the same time as the Pre-Presidency Conference.
4 December 2007 (Ljubljana) General Assembly of TEPSA The General Assembly in Ljubljana welcomed two new members, the Lithuanian Institute for International Relations and Political Science and CIFE, and discussed TEPSA’s past and present activities. It furthermore agreed on launching a training programme for young researchers at TEPSA member institutes in 2008.
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V. TEPSA’ S ACTIVITIES IN 2007
February • TEPSA Friends: Germany and Europe, Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Wessels, University of Cologne, Chairperson of TEPSA
• TEPSA Friends, Brussels: Constitution Plus, renegotiating the Treaty, Speaker: Andrew Duff, Member of the European Parliament
• Steering Committee of the THESEUS project
• TEPSA Newsletter
March • TEPSA/EU-CONSENT : Reviewing the EU’s Budgetary System
• TEPSA Friends: L’Europe et la recherché, Speaker: Philippe Busquin, former Member of the European Commission
• TEPSA Declaration: 50 th Anniversary of Treaty of Rome
• TEPSA Friends: EU Foreign Policy-A Responsible Europe? , Dr Hartmut Mayer, Lecture r in Politics, Oxford University, Discussant: Alar Olljum, DG for External Relations, European Commission
• TEPSA Board Meeting
April • Conference in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria: Citizen’s Attitudes and Identities in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria
May • TEPSA Friends: Europe’s Multilingualism, Speaker: Leonard Orban, Commissioner for Multilingualism
• Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria: The future of the EU Constitutional Treaty
• Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria: European Neighbourhood Policy
• TEPSA Newsletter June • The Portuguese Pre-Presidency Conference
• Conference in Varna, Bulgaria: Bulgaria’s participation in the CFSP and the ENP
• TEPSA Board meeting (open to all TEPSA members)
July • TEPSA Friends: France’s European Policy, Speakers: Bruno Cautrès, Sciences-Po, Paris
• THESEUS Summer School for Young Leaders
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August • TEPSA Newsletter
September • TEPSA Friends : L’Euro : Son Impact et Son Avenir, Speaker : Benjamin Angel, Conseiller du Commissaire aux affaires économiques et monétaires a la Commission Européenne
October • TEPSA friends: Europe at the crossroads, Speaker : Philippe Maystadt, President of the European Investment Bank and former Minister of Finance of Belgium.
• TEPSA friends: The Role of Belgium in Nato, Speaker: Frans van Daele, Permanent Representative of Belgium to NATO
• Conference in Lisbon, Portugal: EUROMESCO Annual Conference
• Conference in Rome: Integrating Europe with what aim? The future of the constitutional process and Europe’s political aims
• Conference in Brussels: The EU as a global actor
• TEPSA Board Meeting
• Plenary session of EU-CONSENT: Wider Europe, deeper integration?
• TEPSA Newsletter
• Hearing in the European parliament: Burcu Gültekin-Punsmann gave a presentation on the “Black Sea Regional Policy Approach: a potential contributor to European energy security”.
• Hearing in the European parliament: Krassimir Nikolov presented his study on “Regional Cooperation in the Black Sea Area: Analysis of the Opportunities to Foster Synergies in the Region”
• Hearing in the European parliame nt: Vladimir Shopov, on “The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the Black Sea Region”.
November • TEPSA friends: The Reform Treaty: an assessment, Andrew Duff, TEPSA Board Member, and MEP
• Conference in Brussels, From Early Warning to Early Action • Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania : The EU’s Impact on changing Political and Cultural Identities
• Conference in Brussels: EU – Japan Conference
• Conference in Brussels: La Chine
• TEPSA Newsletter
• Hearing in the European Parliament on the occasion of a mee ting of the
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EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Parliament Delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, Burcu Gültekin-Punsmann and Nicolas Tavitian, co-authors of a study on “The case for opening the Turkish-Armen ian border”, presented the results of their work to the Members of the European Parliament.
• Hearing in the European Parliament: Josef Marko and Tomislav Marsic presented the result of their study on “The Constitutional Reform Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
December • The Slovenian Pre - Presidency Conference
• TEPSA friends: Enlargement: how has it affected the EU’s decision making?, Speaker: Helen Wallace
• Workshop in Brussels: The Western Balkans and Turkey: Progress and Prospects
• BECSA/TEPSA Conference in Bulgaria: The ENP: The Time to Deliver
• BECSA/TEPSA Conference in Bulgaria: Citizens' Europe? Reflections on the Implications of the Reform Treaty
• General Assembly of TEPSA
• Hearing in the European Parliament: Tamas Szemler presented the results of his study on the role of the EU in a post Status Kosovo.
During the • Reports for the European Parliament on the European Neighbourhood course of Policy, the Black Sea Region and the Western Balkans 2007
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VI. MEMBER INSTITUTES
AUSTRIA DENMARK Austrian Institute for International Danish Institute for International Affairs (OIIP) Studies (DIIS) Director: Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Otmar Director: Dr. Nanna HIVDT HÖLL Strandgade 56 Operngasse 20B DK – 1401 COPENHAGEN A-1040 WIEN Tel: +45 32 69 87 76 Tel. +43 1 581 11 06 Fax: +45 32 69 87 00 Fax. +43 1 581 11 06 10 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] http://www.diis.dk http://www.oiip.at
BULGARIA ESTONIA Bulgarian European Community Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (EVI) Studies Association Director: Dr. Andres KASEKAMP Secretary General: Krassimir NIKOLOV Islandi väljak 1 Acad; Georgi Bonchev Str. EE - 15049 TALLINN Block 6, floor 6 Tel: +372 6 466 376 P.O. Box 11 Fax: 00372 6 317 599 SOFIA 1113 E-mail: [email protected], Tel. +359.2 716595 [email protected] Fax. +359.2 9793026 http://www.evi.ee e-mail: [email protected] http://becsa.org
CYPRUS FINLAND Cyprus Institute of Mediterranean Finnish Institute of International European and International Studies Affairs (KIMEDE) Director: Dr. Tapani VAAHTORANTA Director: Prof. Costas MELAKOPIDES Kruunuvuorenkatu 4 P.O. Box 20757 FI-00160 Helsinki CY-1663 NICOSIA Tel: + 358-206 111 700 Tel. +357 22 33 50 66 18 Fax: +358-206 111 799 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] http://www.upi-fiia.fi
THE CZECH REPUBLIC FRANCE Institute of International Relations Centre d'études européennes, CERI, President: Mr. Petr Drulák Sciences Po Nerudova 3 Dr Florence DELOCHE-GAUDEZ CZ - 118 50 PRAHA 1 - Mala Strana Secrétaire générale Tel.: +420 2 51 108 240 / +420 2 51 117 Boulevard Saint-Germain 108 111 F-75006 PARIS Fax.: +420 2 51 108 222 Tel. +33 1 45 49 83 54 http://www.iir.cz E-mail: florence.deloche@sciences- Contact person: Mr Petr Kratochvil po.fr E-mail: [email protected] http://www.portedeurope.org
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GERMANY ITALY Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) Director: Dr. Mathias JOPP Director: Dr. Gianni BONVICINI Bundesallee 22 Via Angelo Brunetti 9 D-10717 BERLIN I-00186 ROMA Tel. +49 30 88 91 34 0 Tel. +39 06 322 43 60 Fax. +49 30 88 91 34 99 Fax. +39 06 322 43 63 E-mail: [email protected], E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] http://www.iai.it http://www.iep-berlin.de
GREECE LATVIA Greek Centre of European Studies & Latvian Institute of International Research (EKEME) Affairs Director: Dr. Nikos FRANGAKIS Director: Atis LEJINS 6, Kriezotou Street Lomonosova iela 1, GR-10671 ATHENS LV- 1019 RIGA Tel. +30 2 10 362 68 88 / +30 2 10 Tel.: +371 7089888 360 73 20 Fax: +371 7089885 Fax. +30 2 10 363 16 31 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] http://www.lai.lv http://www.ekeme.gr
HUNGARY LITHUANIA Institute for World Economics of the Institute for International Relations Hungarian Academy of Sciences (IWE and Political Science HAS) Director: Prof. Dr; Raimundas Lopata General Director: Prof. Dr. Andràs Vokieciu str. 10, INOTAI LT- 01130 Vilnius Orszaghaz u. 30 Tel.: +370 52514130 H - 1014 BUDAPEST Fax: +370 52514134 Tel. +361 224 67 00 E-Mail: [email protected] Fax. +361 224 67 66 http://www.tspmi.vu.lt E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] http://www.vki.hu
IRELAND LUXEMBURG Institute of European Affairs (IEA) Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches President: Mr Garret FITZGERALD Européennes Robert Schuman Europe House, 8 North Great Georges Director: Mr. Charles BARTHEL Street Rue J. Wilhelm 4 IRE - DUBLIN 1 L-2728 LUXEMBOURG Tel. +353 1 874 67 56 Tel. +352 478 22 90 Fax. +353 1 878 68 80 Fax. +352 42 27 97 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] http://www.iiea.com E-mail : jean- [email protected] http://www.cere.etat.lu
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THE NETHERLANDS SPAIN Instituut voor Internationale Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Betrekkingen, Clingendael Internacionales y Director: Prof. Dr. Jaap DE ZWAAN Estratégicos Clingendael 7 Director: Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias Postbus 93080 C/ Principe de Vergara, 51 NL - 2509 AB DEN HAAG E - 28006 MADRID Tel.: +31 70 324 53 84 Tel. +34 917 81 67 70 Fax.: +31 70 328 20 02 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.realinstitutoelcano.org http://www.clingendael.nl
POLAND SWEDEN Foundation for European Studies – Swedish Institute of International European Institute Affairs Director: Dr. Kazimierz SOBOTKA Director: Dr. Tomas RIES ul. Piotrkowska 262/264 Lilla Nygatan 23 Box 1253 PL - 90-361 LODZ S-111 82 STOCKHOLM (Sweden) Tel. +48 42 637 50 47 Tel. +46 8 511 768 00 Fax. +48 42 637 05 86 Fax. +46 8 20 10 49 E-mail: [email protected], E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] http://www.ui.se www.ie.lodz.pl
PORTUGAL UNITED KINGDOM Instituto de Estudos Estrategicos e Federal Trust for Education and Internacionais (IEEI) Research Director: Bruno CARDOSO-REIS Director: Mr. Brendan DONNELLY Largo de S. Sebastiao 8, Paço do 31 Jewry Street, Lumiar London EC3N2EY. P-1600 LISBOA Tel/fax: Tel. +351 21 757 27 01 020 732 030 45 Fax. +351 21 759 39 83 E-mail: E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] http://www.ieei.pt http://www.fedtrust.co.uk
SLOVENIA Centre of International Relations Director: Prof. Dr. Marjan SVETLICIC Centre of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana P.O. Box 2547 SI - 1001 LJUBLJANA Tel. +386 1 5805 190 Fax: +386 1 5805 109 E-mail: [email protected] www.mednarodni-odnosi.si/cmo
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ASSOCIATED MEMBERS
CROATIA EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC Institut of International Relations ADMINISTRATION – EIPA (IMO) Director General: Prof. Dr. Gerard President Dr. Damir Kušen DRUESNE Ulica Ljudevita Farkaša Vukotinovica 2 O.L. Vrouweplein 22 P.O. Box 303 P.O. Box 1229 10000 Zagreb NL - 6201 MAASTRICHT Croatia Tel: +31 43 329 62 22 Tel.: 385-1-48 77 460 Fax: +31 43 329 62 93 Fax: 385-1-48 28 361 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail:[email protected] http://www.eipa.nl Website: www.imo.hr
COLLEGE OF EUROPE, BRUGES CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE Rector: Prof. Paul DEMARET FORMATION EUROPEENNE (CIFE) 11 Dyver B - 8000 BRUGGE (Belgium) Director: Hartmut Marhold Tel.: +32 50 44 99 11 10, avenue des Fleurs Fax.: +32 50 34 75 33 F-06000 Nice (France) E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +33 4 93 97 93 97 http://www.coleurop.be Fax: +33 4 93 97 93 98 E-Mail: [email protected] COLLEGE OF EUROPE, NATOLIN www.cife.eu Vice-Rector: Mr Robert Picht ul. Nowoursynowska 84 PL-02-797 WARSAW Tel: +48 22 54 58 814 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.coleurope.eu