TGAE: contribution to the Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian Trio Presidency of the European Union

The Spanish, Belgian and Hungarian Trio Presidency of the EU Council comes during a period of transition. Decisions taken as well as precedents set by this Trio will determine the course of European integration in the years to come.  The second report of “Think Global – Act European” (TGAE) project contains numerous ideas and recommendations which should help the Trio Presidency to manage these transitions in the most effective way.  The report has been prepared under the auspices of Notre Europe. DemosEUROPA has participated in the final report with four contributions:

Adam Balcer, Enlargement: Stalemate or Breakthrough? (co-author)

Agata Hinc, The role of Clean Coal in Addressing Energy and Climate Policy   

Adam Jasser, Crisis calls for Greater EU Cohesion to Manage Globalization  

Paweł Świeboda, Delivering on the Institutional Reform of the Lisbon Treaty and Looking Beyond
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unlocking a low-carbon Europe: perspectives on EU budget reform

Green Alliance

The incoming European Commission must set out ambitious budget reform proposals in 2010. A more focused EU budget would help support Europe’s transition to a low-carbon economy throughout this new decade.

Independent think tank Green Alliance  publishes a collection of viewpoints from diverse European businesses and NGOs, social organisations and think tanks. The report ‘unlocking a low-carbon Europe: perspectives on EU budget reform’   calls for concerted action to tackle together the challenges of responding to climate change and reforming the EU’s budget.

p.48 "How to approach the reform?" by Agata Hinc and Paweł Świeboda
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The Obama Moment: European and American perspectives

Edited by Álvaro de Vasconcelos and Marcin Zaborowski, European Union Institute for Security Studies

Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy has nothing in common with that of George W. Bush. US foreign policy has changed radically under President Obama, and the radical departure from the confrontational style of conducting foreign policy that characterised the Bush era throws a window of opportunity wide open for the EU ambition of a world governed by effective multilateralism – a notion that echoes the ‘assertive multilateralism’ of the Clinton years – to see the light of day. The nature as well as the scope of this radical change, both when it comes to issues and to individual countries and regions, must be fully understood if the European Union wants to keep the window open and realise its long-held ambition of shaping a ‘better world’. Read more...

Chapter 6: Climate policy: quest for leadership - Paweł Świeboda. Read more...