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Promoting EU economic interests abroad

Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute presents the synthesis of the 4th seminar of the project TGAE, which dealt with the issue of EU economic interests and which took place in Madrid on 24 October 2012, in partnership with the Royal Elcano Institute.

| 25/12/2012

| Chiara Rosselli | Elvire Fabry |

| Europe in the world

Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute presents the synthesis of the fourth seminar of the project Think Global – Act European IV which took place, in partnership with the Royal Elcano Institute on the 26th October 2012 in Madrid. The seminar, entitled “How can europeans promote their economic interests across the world?” brought together experts from the working group dedicated to EU’s economic policy.

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’sExternal Action”, directed by Elvire Fabry, in May 2013.

D. Katsikas D.Valiante F. Steinberg I. Molina E. Fabry G. Escribano
ELIAMEP CEPS RIE RIE Notre Europe -JDI RIE

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

• Filippa Chatzistavrou, Research Associate, ELIAMEP
• Elvire Fabry, Senior Research Fellow, Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute
• François Godement, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR
• Dimitris Katsikas, Research Fellow, ELIAMEP
• Agatha Kratz, Researcher, ECFR/ Asia Centre
• Daniela Schwarzer, Head of Research Division EU Integration, SWP
• John Springford, Research fellow, Centre for European Reform
• Federico Steinberg, Senior Analyst for Economy and International Trade, Royal Elcano Institute
• Pawel Swieboda, President, demosEuropa
• Yiannis Tirkides, Senior Research Fellow, CCEIA
• Diego Valiante, Research Fellow, CEPS
• Richard Youngs, Director, FRIDE

Discussions were introduced by José Luis Pardo Cuerdo,
Deputy Director General, EU General Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation.

As for the previous reports, the next edition of the report TGAE will be based on the collective work of a group of European think tanks:

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

This project is led with the support of: