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Past Events 2008

What EU Response After the Financial Crisis?

13:00 - Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Nicolas Véron, Pierre Defraigne, Francis Wurtz

What are the implications of the European response to what is widely considered a turning point in the globalisation process? To what extent is the EU really able to propose an alternative model of global economic governance?

To answer these questions, the Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation held a Citizens’ Controversy on 12 November 2008 with Nicolas Véron, Research Fellow at Bruegel, and Francis Wurtz, Chairman of the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left at the European Parliament.

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Towards a Wider Defence Concept: The Civil Dimension of Security in Spain and in the Framework of International Organisations

13:00 - Thursday, 23 October 2008

This event, held in Madrid on 23 October 2008, was a joint collaboration of the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation, CITpax and the Crisis Management Initiative.

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Conflict Prevention and the Fight against Illicit Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons

13:00 - Friday, 17 October 2008

This two-day event on “Conflict Prevention and the fight against illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons” was the second event organised intthe framework of the cycle of conferences “Conflict Prevention in Practice”, which aims at consolidating a community of conflict prevention, enhancing international cooperation and targeting issues being high on the conflict prevention agenda.

The event is organised by the Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation and the Folke Bernadotte Academy, with the support of the French Presidency of the European Union and in close cooperation with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, and the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO).

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Taking the Irish No for a Question

12:00 - Monday, 15 September 2008

On 15 September 2008, the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation launched its Citizens' Controversies with a debate opposing the European parliamentarians Benoît Hamon (PSE) to Iñigo Méndez de Vigo (PPE-DE), who gave their assessment of the costs of the Irish No vote and addressed the relevance of the Lisbon Treaty in the process of EU political integration.

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The Responsibility to Protect: Where Does the EU Stand?

13:30 - Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Whilst unanimously endorsed by UN world leaders at the 2005 World Summit, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle has so far failed to mobilise political will. With recent debates focusing on the issue of legitimate military intervention, the preventive dimension of the concept has largely been overshadowed. In February 2008, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Edward Luck as Special Adviser with a focus on R2P in order to develop conceptual clarity and consensus for the evolving norm.

On 1 July 2008, the Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies invited Edward Luck at the European Parliament - Brussels - to open a debate entitled "The Responsibilty to Protect: Where does the EU stand? " with an overview of the state of play of R2P in the international context.

The discussions then turned to the EU’s position and its potential role in promoting the R2P principle. The issue was explored by a cross-institutional panel of EU representatives involving MEP Ana Gomes, host of the meeting, Morten Knudsen from the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, Richard Kuehnel from the Cabinet of Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, as well as Muriel Domenach on behalf of the French Presidency. The debate was moderated by Prof. Jan Wouters, Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies.

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