THE ROLE OF THE EU IN FIGHTING PROLIFERATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IRAN CASE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. Alyson J.K.BAILES. Opening Lecture of the Second Day in the International Seminar for Experts ?European Security and Defence Policy and the Transatlantic Relationship: How to Strike a New Balance??, organised by the Cicero Foundation in the series Great Debates, Paris, 8 ? 9 December 2005.

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, France, EU.

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Cicero Paper #2 - Going East: The Enlargement of The EU With The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe Contents: *How to meet the Security Needs of the Central and Eastern European Countries * EU and NATO Expansion and the Position of Ukraine * The Enlargement of NATO and its Repercussions in Russia * Costs and Benefits of Hungary's Integration into NATO - Willy Claes et al.

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, France, EU.

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Cicero Paper #1 - Defence: Next Step in European Intergration? Contents:
* The Military Integration of Eastern Europe: Towards an Eastern Locarno?
* The Future of the Western European Union: Integration into the EU or Keeping a Separate Identity?
* A European Role for French Nuclear Weapons?
* Between East and West: Slovakia's Uncertain Security Situation
- Hall Gardner et al.

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, France, EU.

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Fiscal Policy Challenges Facing the New EU Member States sets out views on the fiscal sustainability, public debt, and public investment positions of the new member states. By Armin RIESS.

By Cicero Foundation , Netherlands, France, EU.

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On Madrid 3/11: Does Europe Do Enough to Fight International Terrorism? By Marcel H. van Herpen of the Cicero Foundation who sets out the EU's response to the counter terrorist challenge .

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, France, EU.

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Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings in an Enlarging EU: Towards a Co-ordinated European Approach? Replacing irregular with regular migration is the best way to undercut the appeal of the traffickers and smugglers. This not so much because all irregular migration will cease as a result of the opening up of legal channels but because it gives enforcement a strong argument that regular channels do exist to fill available job opportunities. By Peter Schatzer.

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, Italy.

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How Do the New EU and NATO Members Prepare for the Common European Security and Defence Policy? A Czech View. "We believe that those who - especially in security and defence issues - regard the choice of US vs. Europe, of Anglo-Saxon vs. continental Europe, or of NATO vs. ESDP as a zero-sum game are fundamentally wrong. Aspects of complementarity between the two sides of the Atlantic vastly outnumber and override aspects of competition or rivalry. We are a part of Europe, and we are a part of the trans-Atlantic community. What that means in ESDP practice, is this: We are all for the further development of European military capacities." By Karel Kovanda.

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, EU, Czech Republic.

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Migration in Europe. Against the backdrop of a world where perspectives are changing rapidly and the transition from old to new certainties often looks like charting an itinerary through unknown territory, the issue of migration ranks high on many agendas. Quite a few of those who participate in debates about migration increasingly feel the need to move away from numbers, procedures, reception centres, border control and friction management in order to enable themselves to take a step back and out of the box in search for a fuller understanding of what is really happening and in search for a fresh look about what to do. A recent attempt to contribute to such a search is People Flow: Managing migration in a New European Commonwealth, a report written by Theo Veenkamp, Tom Bentley and Alessandra Buonfino and published beginning of May 2003 jointly by Demos and openDemocracy. The report turned out to be controversial and thought provoking from the start, igniting a thorough and rich digital debate on openDemocracy.net. GLOBUS, Tilburg University?s multidisciplinary research institute for globalisation and sustainable development, founded by Ruud Lubbers in 1998, and acting as a platform for critical debate among researchers, policy makers and others, took the initiative to organise, together with Demos, where Tom Bentley is director, and the Netherlands Ministry of Justice, where Theo Veenkamp is head of strategy, an invitational conference with the purpose to explore further and scrutinize the comprehensive and unorthodox thought exercise which is developed in People Flow.

By GLOBUS Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development, Netherlands.

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Turkey's Preparation for EU Accession: What Has Been Achieved? "Turkey has ever since Attatürk closely aligned itself with the West and has become a founding member of the United Nations, a member of NATO, the Council of Europe, the OECD and an associate member of the Western European Union. During the Cold War Turkey was part of the Western alliance, defending freedom, democracy and human rights. In this respect, Turkey has played and continues to play a vital role in the defence of the European continent and the principal elements of its foreign policy have converged with those of its European partners..." Lecture by Uluç Özülker.

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, EU.

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Building a European Security and Defence Policy: What are the Priorities? With its recent actions (e.g. in Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo) it is hardly questionable that EU is now in the peacekeeping business - but what questions remain to be answered? Lecture by Antonio Missiroli.

By Cicero Foundation, Netherlands, EU.

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