Europe’s World
Giles Merritt, the Secretary General of Friends of Europe, and a former Financial Times staff writer and foreign correspondent, (who has also written for the the International Herald Tribune) is the Editor of Europe’s World. Geert Cami[1] is named in issue one as the Publisher, who added that Europe’s World received "widespread support from advertisers and partners drawn from companies, political parties, business associations, national and regional governments and NGOs" and that the magazine is published three times yearly by Friends of Europe, described as "an independent Brussels-based think tank for EU policy analysis and debate." Its partners are Boeing and generalitat de Catalunya, in the first issue advertisers were: Solvay, Microsoft, Umicore, Adecco, Chivas Regal, T - Systems, The EPP-ED Group, the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Euractive.com, Pfizer, European Voice (The only newspaper with the inside view from Brussels" run by the Economist Group), Nestlé ('Through Nestlé technical and monetary support, a water system for 210,000 people in Eastern Ethiopia is being made sustainable for the long term'), EADS, Toyota. The address is given as Bibliothèque Solvay, Parc Léopold, Rue Belliard 137, B- 1040 Brussels.
A table of contents of the spring 2009 issue can be found at their website.[2]
The organisation argues that Europe’s World is the only independent Europe-wide policy journal:
- ...produced in association with some 100-plus leading European think tanks and academic institutions. Since its launch in 2005 it has become the premier ideas platform for new thinking on political, economic and social issues, read by over 100,000 of the most influential decision makers and opinion formers across Europe.
Although it states that it aims to "engage in a series of genuine and informed political debates which reach beyond the “Brussels village,”" this is arguably an idle threat, given the nature of the authors and the editorial board.
Nevertheless the authors, includes "Heads of State, corporate chiefs, top academics, leading NGO activists or policymakers", and it is argued that this is an activity which is "firmly cementing Europe’s World’s reputation as a platform for new thinking and ground-breaking ideas." EuropesWorld.org, their website, was designed to "further promote debate on the policy challenges facing Europe" and reproduce the articles published in Europe’s World, and reports from think tanks throughout Europe.
The starving and dispossessed of Europe (with access to a computer) can also view luminaries such as Michèle Alliot-Marie and Javier Solana, brandish the magazine at a banquet in the “Brussels village,” on this occasision 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[3], and the Hanns Seidel Stiftung.
Contents
Members of the Editorial Board
Miguel Angel Aguilar: A Columnist for El País (Spain) and Secretary General of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ).
Giampiero Alhadeff: Secretary General of the European Parliamentary Labour Party and former Secretary General of Solidar.
Carl Bildt: Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Balkans and Sweden’s Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994.
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis MEP: A member of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
Pat Cox: President of the European Parliament between 2002 and 2004. Before starting his political career, he worked as a journalist for Irish television.
Etienne Davignon: Former Vice President of the European Commission and currently President of Friends of Europe.
Jean-Luc Dehaene MEP: Belgium’s Prime Minister from 1992 to 1999. He served as the Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe. He is a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
Anna Diamantopoulou: Member of the Greek Parliament and a former EU Commisisoner for Employment and Social Affairs.
Mia Doornaert: Diplomatic Editor of De Standaard (Belgium).
Monica Frassoni MEP: Co-President of the Greens/European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament.
Bronislaw Geremek: (6 March 1932 - 13 July 2008) was foreign minister of Poland from 1997-2000 and European Parliament member since 2004.
Jean-Dominique Giuliani: President of the Robert Schuman Foundation.
Robert Graham: Special Representative at the Financial Times.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves: President of the Republic of Estonia.
Daniel Janssen: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Solvay, a member of the Steering Committee of the Trilateral Commission and of the European Round Table of Industrialists.
Josef Joffe: Publisher-Editor of Die Zeit (Germany) and contributing editor of Time (Intl.).
Sandra Kalniete: Formerly Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Commissioner in charge of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Glenys Kinnock MEP: Member of the European Parliament’s Development and Co-operation Committee and Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Pascal Lamy: European Commissioner for Trade from 1999 to 2004. As of September 2005, he is the fifth Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.
Philippe Le Corre: Former Adviser on International Affairs to the French Minister of Defense (2004-2007) and a Lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Institute of Oriental Studies in Paris.
Robert Manchin: Founder and Managing Director of the Gallup Organisation Europe.
Anna Terrón i Cusí: The Representative of the Catalan Government to the European Union.
John Monks: Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation.
Mario Monti: European Commissioner for Competition 1999-2004. He is President of the Università Bocconi and Chairman of the Board of the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (BRUEGEL).
Doris Pack MEP: Chairwomen of the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe.
Chris Patten: Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former EU Commissioner for External Relations.
António Vitorino: European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs. He is a former Portuguese Minister of Defence and is currently a Member of the Portuguese National Parliament.
Associates
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament| Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Foreign Trade and Development | European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament| Generalitat de Catalunya| Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament| Socialist Group in the European Parliament| Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium
Advertisers
Adecco | Association of Italian Banks | Beneport | Bibliothèque Solvay | Boeing | EADS | EFG Eurobank | ESAG Foundation| European Banking Federation| European Business Summit| ExxonMobil| La Poste,The International Mail Solution| Microsoft| Nestlé| New Defence Agenda| Pernod Ricard| Pfizer | RAG | Roland Berger| Solvay| Toyota Motor Europe| T-Systems| Turkcell | Umicore| Volvo
Advisory Board of think tanks & NGOs
Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) | Baltic Development Forum - Denmark| Centre for European Integration Studies - Georgia| Centre for European and Transition Studies - Latvia| Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) - Belgium| Center for International Relations - Poland| Centre for Liberal Strategies - Bulgaria| Confrontations Europe - France| Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) | Economic Policy Research Institute (TEPAV|EPRI) - Turkey | Estonian Foreign Policy Institute (EVI) | European Institute of Romania| Federal Trust for Education & Research - UK| Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA) | Fondation Robert Schuman - France| Forum 2000 Foundation - Czech Republic| Fundacion para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) - Spain | Greek Centre of European Studies & Research (EKEME) | Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais - Portugal | Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln| Institute for Security and International Studies - Bulgaria| Institute for Civilization and Culture - Slovenia| Institute for European Studies - Estonia| Institute for International Relations (IMO) - Croatia | Institute for World Economics - Hungary | Institute of European Affairs (IEA) - Ireland | Institute of International Relations - Czech Republic | Institute of Democratic Politics - Lithuania| Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) - Russia| Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) - Italy| Madariaga European Foundation - Belgium | Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Germany| Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies - Malta | Kiel Institute for World Economics | Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies | Notre Europe - France| Open Estonia Foundation| Research and Development Center – Intercollege - Cyprus | Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association| Royal Institute for International Relations (IRRI-KIIB) - Belgium| Russia in Global Affairs (Institute of European Studies) | Solidar - Belgium| Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)| Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)| Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)
Media partners
EurActiv| European Voice| Foreign Affairs| Foreign Policy| Internationale Politik| Politique Etrangère| Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs
References
- ↑ On Cami and the relation of this network to others see the Security & Defence Agenda website, this states that Cami:
- co-founded the SDA in 2002. He had been Managing Director of Forum Europe since 1996. Before coming to Forum Europe, Geert Cami worked for the European Commission’s Humanitarian Office as Deputy to the Information Counsellor. Geert Cami has also been a freelancer for two informational music programmes with Belgian Radio & Television (now VRT). During his military service, he worked as a journalist at Televox where he contributed to bi-monthly television news reports, broadcast in Germany, with regular co-productions with the national television stations BRTN and RTBF. He also produced a 26-minute report in English for WEU, CSCE and NATO. In 2002, Geert Cami and Giles Merritt launched the New Defence Agenda (now the Security & Defence Agenda) as a neutral platform for discussing security and defence issues on a regular basis with all actors (international organisations, national governments, business, other think-tanks or foundations, NGOs and media. Geert Cami is also the co-founder and Director of Friends of Europe, the Brussels-based think tank for EU policy analysis and debate. Friends of Europe is presided over by former European Commission Vice-President Etienne Davignon and has 55 European personalities on its Board of Trustees, including Javier Solana, Pascal Lamy, Pat Cox, Jean-Luc Dehaene.]
- ↑ http://www.europesworld.org/Default.aspx?tabid=183&IssueID=LastIssue
- ↑ Schuman was President of the European Movement (1955-1961).
