EU resource management: time for coherence

Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute presents the synthesis of the second seminar of the project Think Global – Act European IV which took place, in partnership with the Centre for European Reform (CER), on the 18th October 2012 in London.

The seminar, entitled “EU’s external action for a sustainable and strategic management of natural resources” brought together experts from the working group II dedicated to EU’s climate change, energy, agricultural
policies and more broadly the resource challenge.

This brief synthesis regroups salient points of the discussions, before the publication of a series of policy papers in January 2013 and the final report “Thinking Strategically about the EU’s External Action”, directed by Elvire Fabry, in May 2013.

The Programme

The Synthesis

The policy papers

The debate was shaped by the contributions of the following experts:

Sami Andoura, Senior Research Fellow, Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute
Annika Ahtonen, Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre
Andrea Frontini, Programme Assistant, European Policy Centre
Nadège Chambon, Senior Research Fellow, Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute
Gonzalo Escribano, Director of the Energy Program, Real Instituto Elcano
Elvire Fabry, Senior Research Fellow, Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute
Lord Chris Haskins, House of Lords, UK Parliament; former chairman of Northern Foods and Member of the CER advisory board
Clémentine d’Oultremont, Research Fellow, Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations
Stephen Tindale, Associate Fellow, Centre for European Reform

Discussions were introduced by H.E. Mr. Poul Skytte Christoffersen, Denmark ambassador to Belgium, former Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Fischer Boel and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Denmark.

The final report TGAE will be based on the collective work of the following 16 European think tanks:

The 16 think tanks participating in this project confront their analyses during a series of seminars organised in Rome, London, Paris, Madrid and Brussels during October 2012.

The programme is led with the support of the