BRUSSELS, 1 MARCH 2012 - Key messages from the first European Young Leaders seminar in Paris: think European but work trans-nationally, re-engage with European citizens yet look beyond Europe’s borders. The European Young Leaders ‘40 under 40’ programme promotes a European identity by engaging 40 of the EU's brightest young minds from a wide range of backgrounds.

BRUSSELS-21 November 2011 The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, participated in the meeting Latin America's New Dynamic, in Brussels, Belgium, which was organized by ECLAC, the think-tank Friends of Europe and the @LIS2 Programme. More than 300 high-level participants were at the event, such as representatives from European Parliament, EUROCHAMBRES and different Latin American Missions in the European Union.

BRUSSELS, 16 November 2011-To revitalise Europe after the crisis, EuropaNova and Friends of Europe are launching the first fully European leadership program, the "40 under 40" European Young Leaders program. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, while the European Union is going through an unprecedented existential crisis, EuropaNova, the Paris-based “action tank” and Friends of Europe, the Brussels-based think tank, are launching a new type of leadership programme.

BRUSSELS, 13 OCTOBER 2011 - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday urged quick backing and implementation of his new road map for bailing out Greece, recapitalising banks and increasing the firepower of the Eurozone rescue fund, saying these measures must be ready in time for the G20 summit in Cannes in early November and did not require a change in the treaty of the European Union.

Europe isn’t in a good place these days. The drive towards closer integration is losing momentum and appears in great danger of slipping backwards.

BRUSSELS, 17 JUNE 2011 The rise of Asia is shifting the global economic and geopolitical order, making it ever more necessary to revive Europe-Asia relations. Friends of Europe is organising a first-of-a kind Policy Summit on Europe-Asia relations - “Europe and the Asian Century”- as part of its recently-launched Asia Programme to contribute to the development of a new Europe-Asia strategy. This high-level all-day conference will take place at the Bibliothèque Solvay in Brussels on June 2...

BRUSSELS, 19 MAY 2011 The European Union has come under strong criticism from a top African farmers’ spokesman at a “trade and aid” debate by Friends of Europe. Within days of the European Commission’s plans to reshape of its General System of Preferences (GSP) import scheme, Mamadou Cissokho, President of the Network of West African Farmer and Producer Organisations, claimed.

BRUSSELS, 10 MAY 2011 Friends of Europe has pleasure in announcing the publication of the first of its Fellowship reports.  In our first Fellowship report, Dr Yannos Papantoniou, a former Greek finance minister, draws lessons from Greece’s debt crisis to propose eurozone reforms.

BRUSSELS, 28 MARCH 2011 China’s 12th Five-Year Plan offers European Union companies a unique opportunity to participate in the greening of Asia’s economic powerhouse but Europeans should also look out for more competition from Chinese rivals and new investment barriers in the green sector, says a report published by chinadialogue*, leading independent specialists on China’s environmental policies.

BRUSSELS: 15 MARCH 2011 - Rich economic rewards and alternative businesses opportunities await European businesses that engage in the fast growing Latin American marketplace. Similar opportunities exist for Latin American business in Europe. This was the message that came out loud and clear at the international conference “Investing in Latin America’s Boom” held in Brussels on March 15th.