Report
Think Global – Act European IV – Thinking Strategically about the EU’s External Action
16 European think tanks present their recommendations on a global strategy for the EU’s External Action.
The Jacques Delors Institute has transformed its project Think Global – Act European (TGAE), launched in 2008 and which today mobilises 16 european think tanks, into the heart of a broader reflection concerning the instruments of the EU’s external action service.
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The report was presented on the 15th May 2013 in Brussels at the Hotel Silken Berlaymont with the participation, notably of, Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO, Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister for Defence, David O’Sullivan,Chief Operating Officer, EEAS…
Please find attached the event’s programme and the synthesis of the debate.
Jean-Yves Le Drian’s speech: ‘Europe of Defence: A pragmatic approach’
Pascal Lamy’s speech: ‘Engaging with middle and global players’
The Jacques Delors Institute further presents its TGAE IV report in various Member State capitals:
–Madrid on the 10th of June in partnership with Real Instituto Elcano,
–Berlin on the 1st of July in partnership with SWP,
–Paris on the 4th of July in partnership with the EU Institute on Security Studies …
The 5 Working Groups:
How can Europeans promote their economic interest at the global level?
[seminar synthesis] [series of policy papers]
What are the EU external strategies for resources and sustainable development?
[seminar synthesis] [series of policy papers]
How can Europeans address their demographic challenge through a comprehensive migration strategy? [seminar synthesis] [series of policy papers]
How to make out of the EU’s vicinity an opportunity for the EU itself?
[seminar synthesis] [series of policy papers]
How can Europeans be considered seriously with lower hard security capacities?
[seminar synthesis] [series of policy papers]
Previous Editions>>
Think Global – Act European III (June 2011) >>
Think Global – Act European II (March 2010) >>
Think Global – Act European I (May 2008) >>
Contact: Elvire Fabry, Chercheur Senior, Notre Europe – Institut Jacques Delors, efabry@notre-europe.eu
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Promoting peace is not the same as fighting war
European defence Part 2 : Industries
EU and China between De-Risking and Cooperation: Scenarios by 2035
Arsenal Europe, Financing Military Capabilities for Ukraine and EU Member States
European defence Part 1 : budgets
Mapping the EU’s digital trade
[FR] Faced with the Russian threat, which budgets for which defence?
[FR] Turkish elections: Erdoğan’s resilience
2023 European Year of Skills
[FR] Migration: A look back at the February 9 European Council
A new world order?
What security guarantees can the EU provide to Ukraine?
Victory, but what kind?
The EU Green Deal in a volatile world
Whose leadership will emerge from the new European geopolitical situation?
Germany — France
Differences and similarities
The future of common borrowing
European companies are facing the decoupling of China and the United States
Make the Social Climate Fund a game changer to tackle energy poverty
Cyberattacks in Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine
The Swedish energy transition.
A race far from won
Which European defence policy?
[FR] France’s energy future
Can a minimum price on carbon accelerate the adoption of clean technologies?
The need for a socially-just European Green Deal
United in diversity? National responses to the European energy crisis
The European Political Community
Regional perspectives on energy citizenship and citizen participation in the energy transition
Moldova and the war
Making migrant returns a pre-condition of trade openness
Welcoming Ukrainian refugees in the EU
Strategic Compass: industry or power?
[FR] Ukrainian refugees: the next step
European cybersecurity and data privacy:
Threats and prospects
Climate policy
of the new German Government
An inclusive Social Climate Fund for the just transition
The European recovery plan as a breakthrough for green innovation? Challenges and opportunities for an innovative green recovery
High energy prices. Russia fights back?
Addressing the climate and social emergencies with minimum energy performance standards
The European energy price spike
A Social Climate Fund for a fair energy transition
Europe and asylum: from a protection area to a protected area
Strategic Autonomy
in Post-Covid Trade Policy
European Strategic Autonomy
and the US–China Rivalry:
Putting the cart before the horse? PERSPECTIVES ON A POTENTIAL ETS ON RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
How Effective is Differentiation in the EU Economic Policy Field?
Climate: How do MEPs vote?
Make regulation fit for innovation
CHALLENGES FOR EUROPEAN RAIL
Europe needs to innovate
to become a front-runner in the global green economy race
Using the “Barnier Method”
to deal with China
Europe needs a political strategy to end energy poverty
How to lift 30 million Europeans out of Energy poverty?
The EU and the USA: a new reality with no illusion
From Expectation to Action
5 years after the Paris Agreement, the largest global economies are engaging in the race towards climate neutrality
Strategic choices for the EU’s digital trade policy after the US election
Making transatlantic relations green: a common agenda for climate action
RCEP: the geopolitical impact from a new wave of economic integration
Greening EU Trade 4:
How to “green” trade agreements?
TRUMP’S TRADE WAR: A DELIBERATE CHOICE
European Green Transparency
Lessons from France and Further Room Improvement
Brexit: Breaking the laws of gravity?
New pact on migration: a balanced proposal to be further enhanced
Europe continues its climate marathon
Building a clean mobility system in times of COVID-19
Trade in pandemic times
European Recovery Plan: Time for Green and Social Bonds!
Jacques Delors Institute supports letters to EC Vice Presidents
A European Border Carbon Adjustment proposal
Greening EU trade – 3
Le covid-19 remet-il en cause l’Europe de la défense ?
L’Europe sans charbon
Covid-19: the urgent need for stricter foreign investment controls
Overcoming covid-19 crises
by building a clean and resilient Europe
The health crisis should not eclipse the migration crisis
La déclaration de Malte : des “résultats” trompeurs
Making the Green Deal a European success
Coalition, narrative, flagships
Industrial subsidies are at the heart of the trade war
What is the scope of the EU external Competence
in the field of energy today?
Russian gas pipelines and the EU: moving from a love-hate relationship “with adults in the room”?
The WTO in crisis:
Can we do without multilateralism in the digital age?
Greening EU trade policy – 2 :
the economics of trade and environment
L’armée européenne, y penser ?
Trade war :
bad timing for Brexit ‘take back control’
Mobilité des apprentis dans l’UE : réalité et perspectives
Cities in Europe
What EU innovation can do for climate neutrality
The European migration policy:
all about the beginnings
Guerre commerciale : « L’Europe peut encore peser »
A Pact in Lampedusa
A greener and more inclusive trade policy
A fresh start in EU asylum policy
The European Green deal starts with the energy transition
Time to green EU trade policy : but how?
Innovation for the energy & climate transition
Sustaining multilateralism in a multipolar world what france and germany can do to preserve the multilateral order
A small electric car is 3 times cleaner than a small gasoline car
Brexit: the Knowns Amongst the Unknowns. For the UK, the EU and Third Countries, notably South Korea
L’Europe de l’énergie existe : le citoyen l’a rencontrée
Climate Change: at the Heart of a New European Political Balance
Just energy transition: a reality test in Europe’s coal regions
Making the European energy transition socially sustainable
Relever le défi énergétique et climatique en Europe : les propositions de 5 think tanks
Electric vehicles, european mobility and industrial leadership at stake
Les Ateliers de la Citadelle
Invest in the clean energy future we want: ten recommendations to accelerate competitive clean energy innovation with Horizon Europe
Clean Mobility: The European Way – A Comprehensive Approach to Electric Vehicles in the Energy Transition
Le « pacte mondial » sur les migrations : une inspiration européenne
For a European policy on asylum, migration and mobility
A French-German Cooperation Agenda for the Energy Transition in Europe
What impact would a No Deal Brexit have on European Parliament elections?
EU and US Sanctions: which sovereignty?
Towards a European Transition Support Fund
From Trump to the European New Deal
Controlled centers and regional disembarkation platforms: towards a breakthrough in solidarity between Member States?
Brexit: potential scenarios amid turbulent waters
The EU’s Four Strategic Challenges
Reforming the WTO – with or without the US?
Asylum seekers: “The paradox of the project of the” Vienna-Rome axis “
Saving the WTO Appellate Body or returning to the Wild West of trade?
