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The independent policy journal Europe’s World was launched on 4 October 2005 by some 50 leading European think tanks. Published three times yearly, it is the only pan-European publication that offers policymakers and opinion-formers across Europe a platform for presenting ideas and forging consensus on key issues. It also reflects the diversity of national policy debates in EU states, with particular attention being paid to newcomer and candidate countries. 34,000 senior personalities throughout Europe and beyond receive the print version of Europe's World and over half a million others receive the electronic version. After two year, more than 100,000 of those actually read Europe's World. Our readers are drawn from politics, government, business, the media, universities and NGOs.
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“I believe that Europe’s World will
play a valuable and important role”
Josep Borrell
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The years since the first elections to the European Parliament in June 1979 have seen the EU’s democratic “heart” grow in stature. As the only directly elected body amongst the EU institutions, the European Parliament passes the majority of European laws in partnership with the Council of Ministers, which represents national governments. These laws have a direct impact on the lives of Europe’s citizens, so it is essential that the 732 members of the Parliament should be as fully-informed as possible when taking decisions that help determine the well-being of society. Yet recent opinion polls, and also the results of a number of national referenda on the EU constitutional treaty, have shown there is a need for better and more regular debate on the challenges facing the European Union.
I believe that Europe’s World will play a valuable and an important role in tackling these issues. I wish it every success in its aim of promoting high-quality debate between Europe’s different stakeholders, in business, in civil society, in government and amongst the elected political representatives of Europe’s voters.
Josep Borrell Fontelles - President of the European Parliament
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“The pages of Europe’s World are
open to all shades of opinion”
José Manuel Barroso
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Brussels is not Europe, and the discussions that take place there between EU specialists - be they diplomats, eurocrats, business people, NGO leaders or even elected politicians - do not constitute a European debate. Creating such a debate, in which the people of Europe can speak and listen to one another, is perhaps the greatest challenge still to face us after almost half a century of political and economic integration.
I welcome and warmly applaud the way that Europe’s World is responding to that challenge. The aim of this new journal is to become a pan-European platform for the exchange of ideas and insights. It is an independent project in which the Brusselsbased think tank Friends of Europe has linked up with some 40 counterparts in the EU and elsewhere in Europe to create a network for policy analysis and discussion.
The pages of Europe’s World, I’m assured by its editors, are open to all shades of opinion on where Europe’s future should lie. I wish the new journal well and hope that it succeeds in its ambition of furthering understanding, identifying key issues and widening consensus on the most effective policy solutions.
José Manuel Barroso- President of the European Commission
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“Europe’s World meets
a serious need in the EU”
Javier Solana
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I am delighted that Friends of Europe has taken the initiative of launching a new policy journal for Europe. Europe’s World meets a serious need in the EU by creating a common platform for new policy thinking and debate. Now more than ever, we must transcend national prisms, challenge conventional wisdom and build common ground. While we Europeans certainly debate a lot, most of our discussions take place within national circles. They are also too often the preserve of technical experts or a handful of Brussels insiders. We lack a common European public space - an intellectual agora - and we do so at a time when the case for Europe is being contested and needs re-stating.
Fifty years after the start of our great European journey, there is much we can be proud of. But there is even more work still to be done. Europe is in search of a new consensus: on the EU’s purpose and direction; on the structures, reforms and budget it needs; and on how we can re-gain people’s trust and confidence. As a convinced European and an eternal optimist, I believe that not only can we forge this new consensus but that we have no choice. To do so, however, we need a pan- European debate. Europe’s World can play a central role in this strategic debate on the EU’s future; by bringing together Europe’s most creative minds, by providing fresh thinking on the key challenges facing the EU, and by helping to forge an ambitious agenda for a pro-active Europe that will assert itself on the global stage.
Javier Solana- Secretary-General of the Council of the EU and High Representative for the Common Foreign & Security Policy.
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Message from the Editor and the Publisher
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Giles Merritt
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Geert Cami
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“WELCOME TO A MILESTONE ISSUE
OF EUROPE’S WORLD”
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This is the seventh Europe’s World since the journal’s launch in 2005, and it is in many ways a landmark issue. It has more pages and more authors, and with its special section on “The Next Fifty” tries to look further ahead than ever.
In line with this year’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, we’ve asked a number of senior European figures to speculate on the policy challenges and pitfalls of the coming half-century. It may sound like an invitation to do a little crystal ball-gazing, but true to form our authors have come up with predictions and prescriptions based on their own informed analysis.
The major innovation, though, is that this journal now comes in both English and French-language editions, Thanks to a new partnership with the Fondation Robert Schuman in Paris, and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Quai d’Orsay, Europe’s World is now also published in French.
It’s an important step, because although the widespread use of English amongst policymakers everywhere has ensured Europe’s World a pan- European and even global readership, our French edition will make it more accessible still. And it also seems clear that in Europe the next few years are to be marked by a re-assertion of French influence and involvement in the EU’s policymaking process.
The Fondation Robert Schuman has been joined, meanwhile, by another new Europe’s World publishing partner − Gallup. Because the shifts and nuances of public opinion are such an essential component of democratic politics – and all the more so in the complex world of the EU we at Europe’s World welcome our collaboration with the pioneer pollsters whose company name has become a popular generic term for opinion sampling in general.
We are aiming to harness for Europe’s World the expertise of Gallup, which currently carries out the Flash Eurobarometer surveys. Where appropriate, we will in every issue be complementing some articles with poll findings that shed sometimes unexpected light on the topic being discussed. We’ve called the new series “Matters of Opinion”, not least because in Europe’s policy debate it is public opinion that really matters most.
The most striking feature of Europe’s World, meanwhile, is one that anyone reading this printed copy of the journal may well be unaware of. From its launch issue two years ago, Europe’s World embraced the Internet as the means to reach out to as wide a readership as possible. Each issue of the journal is distributed electronically by the 66 think tanks and NGOs across Europe grouped in our Advisory Board. The result is that our English version readership now stands at 105,000 people, with the new French edition due to add a further 25,000 readers.
It is, though we say it ourselves, a significant example of how information technology can be allied with a policy journal that has neither national nor party political ties, to create a truly international cross-border debate on Europe’s future and its role in our fast-changing world.
Giles Merritt - Editor
Geert Cami - Publisher
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Europe's World makes headlines
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Europe’s World has established itself as an influential leader in the EU policy debate, setting new trends in media focus and coverage. Articles appearing in Europe’s World are re-published in such newspapers as the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Der Standard, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, La Libre Belgique, The Village, De Tijd, Knack, The Scotsman, The Korea Herald, The Moscow Times, Warsaw Business Journal,The Shanghai Daily, The Japan Times, The Korea Herald, Monitor, Politis, NRC Handelsblad, Kristeligt Dagblad, Postimees, Die Welt, Kerdos, Kauppalehti, The St. Petersburg Times, Rzeczpospolita, Delo, L'Agefi, Valor, Expreso, Jordan Times, Al Ghad, Al Raya, Koha Ditore, Today’s Zaman, Pravda, Les Echos, Dilema Veche, Montenegro Economist…
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Europe's Top policy-makers read Europe's World
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The eye-catchingly colourful covers of Europe’s World are a familiar sight at Brussels’ most important and high-profile events. The journal also features prominently inside the European Parliament on the occasion of plenary sessions, and at many conferences and debates organised with Europe’s World as media partner.
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Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) receives a copy of the
Autumn 2007 issue of Europe's World at the Friends of Europe's President's Dinner on
4 October 2007. |
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Etienne Davignon, President of Friends of Europe and a Member of the Europe’s World Editorial
Board, and Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for Competition receive a copy of the Autumn
2007 issue of Europe's World at the Friends of Europe's President's Dinner on 4 October 2007. |
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François Bayrou, President of France’s UDF centrist party and candidate in the French presidential
elections, at the Policy Spotlight , organised by Friends of Europe on February 13, 2007.
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Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, at the launch
of the Autumn 2006 issue.
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Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Member of the European Commission in charge of External Relations and
European Neighbourhood Policy, at the Protecting Europe: Policies for enhancing security in the
EU conference, organised by the Security & Defence Agenda on May 30, 2006.
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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary-General at the NATO & ESDP: Forging New Links
conference organised by the Security & Defence Agenda on June 8, 2007.
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Etienne Davignon, President of Friends of Europe and a Member of Europe’s World Editorial
Board, Margot Wallström, EU Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy,
Karel De Gucht, Belgian Foreign Minister at the launch dinner in October 2005. |
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Michèle Alliot-Marie and Javier Solana, at the Closing Ranks - The drive for greater European
Security and Defence Capability conference on November 21, 2005. The event was co organised by
the Security and Defence Agenda, the Fondation Robert Schuman, and the Hanns Seidel Stiftung.
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