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The first two numbers in volume 5 of EuroComment’s Briefing Notes have just appeared. Written by Peter Ludlow, the Executive President of the European Strategy Forum and Founding Director of CEPS, the Briefing Notes offer lively and detailed analyses of many of the most important developments in and around the European Union.
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Monthly electronic confidential letter of the think-tank LEAP/E2020
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Lost Opportunities in the EU Constitution Debate
This booklet is a selected compendium of key documents and speeches submitted to the Convention on the Future of Europe. It gathers analyses that went against the grain, and projects an alternative series of proposals than the federalist or integrationist options taken up (and subsequently rejected by the French and Dutch electorates). It offers a second, alternative route for European development.
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Alternative profiles of the UK Presidency of the European Union
Called upon to lead the Union only two weeks after the British government figured as a major protagonist in the breakdown of the EU budget negotiations, the new UK Presidency will have to try to broker an agreement which is acceptable to the great majority of member states who believed a deal was possible in June, but which satisfies a domestic audience whose appetite for far reaching change has been aroused by the government’s rhetoric.
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The European Council, the Presidency and the Commission
Peter Ludlow’s latest Briefing Note is concerned with the structure of leadership in the European Union. As Jean Monnet observed, ‘nothing is possible without men, nothing is lasting without institutions’. During the past thirty or forty years, the EU has developed a remarkably effective system of collective leadership in and through the European Council which has continued to facilitate the integration process, despite radical changes in the size and character of the EU itself and the emergence of a generation of leaders whose most prominent figures bear little comparison with their predecessors. The first two sections of the paper analyse how and why the system emerged and flourished.
The Dutch and French referenda must however be seen in part at least as a protest against this system.
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Proclaiming the death of both the stability and growth pact and the Lisbon strategy are entirely inappropriate, concludes Peter Ludlow in this analysis of the European Spring Council which covered: reform of the stability and growth pact, the overhaul of the Lisbon strategy, sustainable development and climate change. The vital decisions to move these forward however, can only be taken in Berlin and Paris.
Published May 2005
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Analysing the European Council of 16-17 December 2004, Peter Ludlow guides the reader through the political machinations that led to the opening of accession negotiations with Turkey. The paper discusses in-depth detail on the power play between the Dutch presidency, the Council, the Commission and the member states surfacing detail that could only be raised from an insider’s point of view.
Published March 2005
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Luxembourg EU Presidency - from 1 January to 30 June 2005
Luxembourg will have no distinctive interest at stake and will therefore be free to act as an honest broker, says Mr Ludlow in this analyses of Luxembourg’s major tasks during its EU Presidency.
The paper examines the challenges of the Luxembourg EU Presidency and presents its leading personalities.
Published January 2005
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The new Barroso Commission was finally approved in November 2004
The story of the making, unmaking and remaking of the Barroso Commission is one of the strangest in the fifty-year history of the European Union. Peter Ludlow tells it here.
Published 7 December 2004
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