Newsletter of the College of Europe Community Le bulletin du Collège d’Europe College of Europe NNEWSEWS summer 2005 Bill Gates debates with College students Les fi nalistes du Prix de l’Ancien 2005 Les nouvelles priorités de la Fondation Madariaga Alumni Association Association des Anciens Etudiants INSIDE UN LONG FLEUVE TRANQUILLE ? LAURÉATS DE L’ANNÉE 2004/2005 Les résultats des deux référendums en France et aux Pays-Bas ont Le Collège félicite : stupéfait l’ensemble des acteurs et des citoyens européens. Ce signal politique de la part de deux Etats membres fondateurs a certes • Meilleurs étudiants par département, Bruges quelque peu ralenti le processus de ratifi cation du traité constitutionnel mais aussi tempéré les certitudes des uns et des autres. Clément Beaune, Politique et Administration Le processus d’intégration européenne n’est pas un long fl euve Alejandro Manchado Martin, Economie tranquille. Loin s’en faut. Parfois rapide ou lent selon la topographie Pascal Berghe et Anthony Dawes, Droit et les saisons, il charrie le même lot de questions et d’incertitudes. Quelle Europe voulons-nous ? Que faisons-nous ensemble ? Quel • Meilleurs étudiants, Natolin est notre projet politique ? Le projet de Traité constitutionnel vise à répondre à ces questions et à permettre aux citoyens européens Tim Van Anderlecht, Etudes européennes d’aller ensemble de l’avant. inter disciplinaires Depuis 1949, le Collège d’Europe enseigne, recherche et débat Milena Mihajlovic, Gouvernance européenne la chose européenne. A cette volonté d’atteindre l’excellence Johannes Dietrich, Europe centrale et orientale académique, s’ajoute une formidable expérience Tim Van Anderlecht, L’UE comme acteur humaine et européenne fondée sur l’amitié et international le respect de l’autre. Une nouvelle promotion Constance Motte, Marché intérieur d’étudiants s’apprête à partager un moment Juan Jorgé Piernas López, Cadre juridique de l’UE unique qui viendra enrichir l’expérience de milliers d’autres anciens étudiants qui, touchés par l’esprit • Martin Madden Prize du Collège, ont pris une part importante dans le rapprochement des peuples et des cultures. (meilleur(e) étudiant(e) britannique), Bruges Fabien Durand Je m’associe donc à toute l’équipe du College of Promotion Ramon Llull Catherine Blair Europe News pour leur souhaiter une excellente Président de l’Association rentrée académique. des Anciens. • Dans le domaine pharmaceutique: EFPIA (Premier prix - meilleure thèse), Bruges Debating Europe – Penser l’Europe Lorraine Gallagher, Politique et Administration Bill Gates debates with College students 3 Visions of Europe: Where are we going? 3 College cooperates with ARTE 3 Johnson & Johnson Chartered Accountants come to Bruges 4 (Deuxième prix – meilleure thèse), Bruges Conférence de la spécialisation ‘Droit européen Anthony Dawes, Droit et Analyse économique’ 4 Meilleur avocat général du ‘European Law Moot Court’ 4 • Institute of Chartered Accountants in England Academia and Wales (pour la meilleure thèse dans le The College of Europe in Asia 5 domaine de la comptabilité), Bruges Conférence sur les langues en Europe 5 Andrea Beltramello, Politique et Administration Liber Professorum: 30 Years of European Legal Studies 5 • Rafael Sanz Memorial Prize (pour la meilleure Campus Life – Vie sur le campus Visite des étudiants à Kaliningrad 6 thèse dans le département de droit), Bruges New academic programme to be launched 7 Margarita Fernandez Alvarez-Labrador Staff on the Move 7 Alumni Association – Association des Anciens Le Collège félicite également Valentine Mangez College of Europe Careers Service Update 8 (Droit) et Tim Van Anderlecht (Etudes européennes Hungarian Regional Group hosts event 8 interdisciplinaires) qui ont reçu la Bourse européenne Prize awarded in memory of alumnus 9 Emile Bernheim cette année. Le dîner des promotions anniversaires 9 Alumni Association Update 10 Prix de l’Ancien 2005 10 Madariaga European Foundation – Fondation Chief Editor: Paul Demaret, Rector européenne Madariaga Editorial Board: Anne Draime, Fabien Durand, Marie-Ange New focus on the Barents Region: Gaiffe, John Miller, Angela O’Neill, Aude Rousselot, Marie MEF signs partnership agreement to create a Barents institute 12 Vincent, Mirko Widenhorn Pollution Maritime: vers une responsabilité pénale européenne 12 Partners in Prevention: moving on from Theory to Practice 13 For suggestions or remarks, please contact Toward an international center for prevention of genocide 13 [email protected] HIV/AIDS in Europe and its Neighbourhood: To update your address, please contact EU Policy Priorities and Actions 14 [email protected]. The European Dementia Consensus Network (EDCON) 15 New Eurasia Foundation 15 Views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not Pre-launch of the Universal Education Foundation: Education by All 15 necessarily refl ect offi cial policy of the College. 2 College of Europe NEWS summer 2005 DEBATING EUROPE – PENSER L’EUROPE BILL GATES DEBATES WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, met with 40 students from the Bruges and Natolin campuses on 1 February 2005 in the presence of Jean-Luc Dehaene, President of the Administrative Council of the College of Europe to discuss their prospects in the future Europe and Microsoft’s vision of the European market. Jan-Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands with Dutch students of the Montesquieu promotion. In the fi rst panel discussion several European academic experts debated the topic: Where and what are the frontiers of Europe? The event was introduced by Rector Paul Demaret and chaired by Prof. R. Picht and Prof. B. Geremek. Among the panellists were Prof. K. Nicolaïdis, new chairwoman of the Visions of Europe project, Prof. J. Bjorn Kunoy asks a question to Bill Gates. Rupnik, Prof. P. van Ham and Prof. H. August Winkler. Future conferences will tackle the following The Rector of the College of Europe, Paul Demaret, questions: introduced the software entrepreneur and philan- • What place and role for religion in a secularised thropist who set out to share his visions about Europe? the revolutionary impact of information and new • Europe: land of mestization? communication technologies in the next 5 - 10 years. Mr • Economy and Society: a European Dilemma? Gates underlined the fact that we are only witnessing • Which European public space? the beginning of these changes. He particularly • Building a European Memory? insisted on the ways increased interconnectivity and • Power, institutions and democracy ever decreasing costs of computational power will change the lives of people and businesses, stressing the need for cooperation between Europe and the REGARDS CROISÉS US. On the eve of the fi rst anniversary of the recent The meeting was organised by Jean-Yves Art from enlargement of the European Union, the Regards Microsoft Europe, who also teaches at the College in Croisés project was launched. The partnership Bruges. He led a debate which confronted Mr Gates involves, on the one hand, the cultural TV-channel with questions students had prepared on a wide ARTE through its European website, and, on the other range of topics. The discussion not only touched upon hand, the College of Europe with its two campuses in technological and legal questions but also allowed the Bruges and Natolin (Warsaw). founder of the world’s largest private charity to stress his conviction that development means enabling The objective of the project is to explore regularly the people to join the global information society. main intellectual reviews and weeklies in EU member states and candidate countries, concentrating on Sven Röben the way in which selected key topics are perceived Academic Assistant by intellectuals in order to stimulate trans-national John Locke Promotion debate. In other words, Regards Croisés aims to contribute to the development of a European Public VISIONS OF EUROPE: Space by creating a specifi c tool for promoting a WHERE ARE WE GOING? common and multilingual refl ection on important European challenges. On 25 April, the College of Europe, Bruges campus, The fi rst issue of the new rubrique focused on Trans- hosted the fi rst conference of the “Visions of Atlantic Relations. With the important help of members Europe”series. The project aims at enhancing a deeper of the academic staff and of three students of the refl ection and a confrontation on some increasingly Montesquieu promotion, the fi rst number has given important European questions, especially in the light an insight into the intellectual debate on the future of the troublesome context of the ratifi cation of the of EU-US relations from the perspectives of France, Constitutional Treaty. Germany, Italy, UK, Poland and Romania. More details on the arte-tv.com website. Jan Peter Balkenende, Head of the Dutch Government – a partner in the project – opened the conference Isabella Torta with a speech devoted to the future of European Research Assistant development. Simon Stevin Promotion College of Europe NEWS 3 summer 2005 DEBATING EUROPE – PENSER L’EUROPE FRONTIERS OF THE INTERNAL MARKET Un débat très animé a suivi, les étudiants ELEA intervenant sur chacun des thèmes traités et les The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and profs. Jacques Pelkmans et Inge Govaere (directeurs Wales organised a joint seminar with the College of du programme ELEA) et M. Peter Rodford de Europe, which focused on recent developments in la Commission européenne jouant le rôle de the Internal Market to the extent that they affected modérateur. fi nancial reporting and the accountancy profession. P. Kermode, Head of Unit in DG Taxation and Customs Filomena Chirico Union, discussed the current developments in the Assistante académique fi eld of taxation in the EU, and the role played by the European Court of Justice. A. Carey, Partner at RSM Robson Rhodes, presented recent trends in fi nancial PARTICIPATION DU COLLÈGE D’EUROPE AU reporting, and gave reasons why it had become such ‘EUROPEAN LAW MOOT COURT’ (ELMC) a political issue recently. A discussion on whether politics should impact on accounting standards Le ELMC est un concours de plaidoirie destiné followed.