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An EU "fit for purpose" in the global age - Can we rise to the challenge?

Loukas Tsoukalis, Olaf Cramme & Roger Liddle

30 October 2009

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What is the role of the European Union as a political entity in a rapidly changing world and how it should reform itself, both internally and externally, in order to overcome and respond to the multifaceted challenges of the global age we now live in?

Inspired by three volumes of original policy papers on the full range of EU challenges written by leading experts in the field, this synthesis report provides a compact analysis of how the EU needs to evolve and operate if it is to live up to the expectations and hopes of many of its citizens.

Three publications mark the climax of the EU "fit for purpose" in the global age project:

• Rescuing the European project: EU legitimacy, governance and security (edited by Olaf Cramme)
• The EU in a world in transition: Fit for what purpose? (edited by Loukas Tsoukalis)
• After the crisis: A new socio-economic settlement for the EU (edited by Roger Liddle)

Further information on the project can be found here.