Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation

12 January 2010

With ratification of the new Treaty behind it, the European Union is under pressure to "return to the serious business of governing". At this critical juncture in the EU's development, nine leading Brussels-based think tanks (the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (Bruegel), the Centre For European Studies (CEPS), the Egmont Institute, The European Policy Centre (EPC), Friends of Europe - Les Amis de l'Europe, the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), in cooperation with Agence Europe have initiated an annual forum to deal with the Union's emerging politico-strategic agenda.