The Bridge Magazine

A quarterly review on European integration

SE Europe & the SE Mediterranean

Q4/2007 - Issue 7

Cover story

frontlines
	Letter to José Reinforcing the Lisbon Strategy through external economic measures On September 10th 2007 in Meseberg, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, and Angela Merkel, Chancellor...read more »

Europe in Brief

Agora: bringing civic society into Parliament

Thursday, November 8 and Friday, November 9 saw 400 representatives from across Europe at the European Parliament. They were there as part of the Agora pla...read more »

The Lisbon Treaty: Opting out of our common future?

By Kostas Ifantis

The Euro-philes have at least one reason to be optimistic again. The integration project of the EU is on track taking into account the recent developments in Lisbon that put an end t...read more »

A Green Light for Europe’s Blue Card
By Thanos Triantafyllou

At the beginning of the 21st century, Europe finds itself facing a double challenge:read more »

ALBANIANS & SERBS: Farewell to the Eagle

By Ben Andoni

The Albanians and the Serbs of Kossovo are dedicated to their wedding customs. In the case of the Albanians, at the end of the wedding celebrations, the friends of the groom take away th...read more »

40 Cities delivering for the future

By Simon Reddy

The C40 climate leadership group is a coalition of international cities committed to tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The group was first convened by London...read more »

Debate on Franco Frattini: Territorial Terrorism

Can the fires that devastated Greece and other Mediterranean countries this summer be perceived as terrorist acts? Can we attribute the characteristics of a terrorist attack to the mainly economic mot...read more »

European Climate policy: Ambitious targets need ambitious actions

By Rebecca Harms

In order to reduce the dramatic consequences of climate change, the EU is committed to preventing the global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial l...read more »

dialogue
dialogue Climate change refers to changes in measures of climate and more specifically to variations in meteorological phenomena over long time scales. Such changes include significant statistical fluctuations...read more »

interviews
	Perspectives on Turkey’s EU bid Egemen Bagis interviewed by Dimitris Maziotis and Eleni Fotiou read more »

Facilitating EU Entry
Volkan Vural interviewed by Dimitris Maziotis and Eleni Fotiouread more »

When society pushes for Democratization
Etyen Mahcupyan interviewed by Dimitris Maziotis and Eleni Fotiouread more »

Microsoft role in SE Europe

Goran Radman interviewed by Dimitris Pappas

themes
	The market the competition and the regulators By Panagis Vourloumis In telecoms, the often sybilic dictates of Brussels are interpreted differently by member country regulators. Starting at one end from a laissez faire attitude we go to the ...read more »

impressions
	A Balkan Prayer By Gazmend Kapllani This summer I visited Baarle again. That small town, on the Belgian-Dutch border, which belongs simultaneously to both countries. Last time I was here, it was raining ...read more »

activities
	The Bosphorus Conference In Istanbul, on September 15-16, 2006, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), the Center for European Reform and the British Council co-organized the 3rd Bosphorus Conference on E...read more »

EU and its neigbours

The European Council of Foreign Relations organised its launch conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 19 November, where the challenges the EU faces with regard to its Russia policy, the Western Balkans an

market view
	market view 07 Compiled by Dimitris Papas This section of the magazine hosts articles with business news and activities from the wider region. read more »

culture
	The Scala di Milano and the Balkans of the Future Inva Mula interviewed by Adrian Thano read more »

book reviews
The EU impact on SE Europe This monograph examines the politics and economics in Southeast Europe. Political instability and military clashes in the Balkans during the 1990s resulted in many countries joining the European Union...read more »