Friends of Europe | Activities

Please note: This list of activities is provisional and subject to change. Members of Friends of Europe receive regular updates on our events and publications.

Our Trustees speak out

Pascal Lamy: The Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) discusses financial regulation, food price rises and the global economic slowdown.
30/05/2008 Read more

Michel Barnier: France's agriculture minister argues against full global liberalisation to ease the food crisis.
26/05/2008 Read more

Europe's World

The Only EU-wide Policy Journal

2/06/2008 "Do you like the EU?" − The pollsters' puzzling conclusions Eurobarometer’s findings when measuring opinion in the EU can produce misleading results, warns Helen Szamuely of the UK’s Bruges Group think-tank. She traces the confusions in public opinion between “European values” and the EU itself

17/06/2008 The EU, Russia and the crisis of the post-Cold War European order The post-Cold War European order has come to an end and the EU now finds itself confronting a new Russia – one determined to turn itself in a powerful international player. Faced with this, Ivan Krastev argues that the EU needs to adopt strategies that stop Russia from sending it into a benevolent global irrelevance

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News

Swift adoption of energy and climate policies as best response to oil prices

The European Commission yesterday debated the policy responses needed to mitigate the effects of rising global fuel prices and proposes a co-ordinated policy response, including immediate, medium and long-term policy options

12/06/2008 Read more

Our landmark headquarters

Friends of Europe is privileged to be headquartered in and enjoy the use of one of Brussels' most prestigious architectural landmarks, the 100+ year old Bibliothèque Solvay in the Parc Léopold next to the European Parliament.

The building houses the Friends of Europe team and hosts almost all of the think tank's events in Brussels.

Security & Defence Agenda

www.securitydefenceagenda.org

Our sister think-tank, the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA), is Brussels' leading think-tank on security and defence issues, and aims to raise awareness of how EU and NATO policies can complement each other.