Europe in the World - News and Comment
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By Jesse Scott
In April E3G submitted a thinkpiece to the European Commission’s consultation on the future of the EU Budget.
We’ve now produced a French version of our paper - the summary follows below and the full version is attached in pdf format for download.
We’ll be discussing this paper at an event in Paris on 16th June, hosted by IDDRI and Sciences Po.
Un budget européen pour l’avenir
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By Chris Littlecott
Thanks to the support of our colleagues at the Regional Environmental Centre, the Romanian language version of our ‘Europe in the World’ pamphlet has now been published.
The full version of the pamphlet is attached here for download as a pdf [400Kb].
Following below is the summary to provide a taster of the pamphlet’s arguments about the future of the EU in an interdependent
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By Tom Burke, Chris Littlecott and Nick Mabey
“Missing today’s chance to build a low-carbon economy would be a costly mistake handed on to future generations”, is the argument we make in an opinion article published in the Regional Environmental Centre’s Green Horizons magazine.
A pdf version of the magazine is available for download from the Green Horizons website.
Central and Eastern Europe’s climate change opportunity
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By Chris Littlecott
Thanks to the support of our colleagues at the Regional Environmental Centre, the Polish language version of our ‘Europe in the World’ pamphlet has now been published.
The full version of the pamphlet is attached here for download as a pdf [1.4Mb].
Following below is the summary to provide a taster of the pamphlet’s arguments about the future of the EU in an interdependent
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By Chris Littlecott
Stephen Hale and Stuart Singleton-White of Green Alliance have just published an excellent pamphlet on the topic of the EU budget review, which they launched in Brussels on 17th October.
Their report teases apart the political significance of the EU’s stated aims on energy and climate security. They rightly focus attention on the need for the EU to match its aspirations with how it really
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By Chris Littlecott
The weekend of 11th-13th October saw the first ever multi-lingual and pan-european deliberative poll take place in Brussels. E3G is a partner of this Tomorrow’s Europe initiative, and I was there to see how things took shape.
During the weekend I wrote an article for the dLiberation blog over on openDemocracy, which has been tracking the poll process. If you’d like to comment, I’d suggest you
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By Chris Littlecott
I recently saw that the homepage of the European Commission’s Representation in the UK includes a web poll entitled “What should be the new main challenge for the EU?”
The top response so far is ‘Fighting climate change’ – way out in front of the other options.

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It will be interesting to see if votes for ‘Making the institutions closer to the
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By Chris Littlecott
Following the launch of the Italian version of our ‘Europe in the World’ pamphlet, Caffe’ Europa web magazine has published the pamphlet’s concluding section on the political challenge facing Europe.
This was where we set out some ideas about how Europe could invest in democratic mechanisms that would buttress the creaking structures of party politics.
Firstly, we suggested that the
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By Chris Littlecott
Europe must have confidence that by making low-carbon choices it will become more competitive, prosperous and secure.
That’s the key theme of an interview with E3G Founding Director John Ashton, speaking in his role as Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign Office.
John also reflects on the nature of the political and diplomatic challenge faced, the role of Central and
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By Chris Littlecott
The latest in Green Alliance’s soap box series of debates will take place at 6.30pm on the 16th May, focused on the question Can Europe lead the world to a stable climate?.
As coincidence would have it, E3G will be in Rome that day launching the Italian version of our ‘Europe in the World’ pamphlet, which includes some of our thoughts on precisely this issue. We’re disappointed to miss the
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