Reflections on the Future of Europe
Reflections on the Future of Europe

Summary/Abstract: Europe is facing a complex situation going beyond the economic and financial crisis: a democratic deficit and a lack of accountability, diverging interests vis-à-vis migration, enlargement fatigue, nationalist and populist outbursts, a fairness gap and so. Since the June European Council, the EU has been striving to achieve a genuine Economic and Monetary Union, to envisage a banking union and reach a compromise on Multiannual Financial Framework. In this context, Balkanalysis.com contributor Maria-Antoaneta Neag participated, on 11 October 2012, to the Friends of Europe’s 9th annual high-level roundtable, entitled “The State of Europe. Escaping the Doldrums”, in order to capture the views of top policymakers, business leaders and civil society elders, and so to update readers on the latest flow of ideas concerning the future of Europe coming from Brussels- which of course will have an impact on how they approach Balkan-related issues in the future.

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