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The Public Debate group has stopped its activity in June 2002. This site is maintained for memory. The Public Debate site will be up again at some point in 2004 under different conditions. |
Public
Debate is a trans-national group whose members are involved in
European policy design and debate. They are brought together by a
common will to rehabilitate the political dimension in the European
construction. Further to a first
general position paper, Public Debate works and issues
position statements on specific
issues that call for a public European policy debate. Starting in
October 2001, we organise some public debates
with speakers involved in the debate on European policies.
Débat public - Public debate - Öffentliche Debatte - Debate Público
Public debate's general position paper is accessible in 4 languages on this site. This text is protected by author rights. All our texts are licensed under the Open Content License that authorises their reproduction and set safeguards on the preservation of their integrity and attribution.
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Quality-based policies and the European construction |
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Public Debate currently investigates the following topics:
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Languages and plurilingualism in Europe |
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Positive intellectual rights and the crisis of intellectual property |
See the entry "Public domain and public space" (in French, English version coming soon) in the Dictionary of globalisation co-published by GERM and Libération |
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Concentration and decentralisation in media: consequences for democracy |
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Political solidarity and European public opinion against violence and intolerance |
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Read Public Debate's declaration further to the Irish referendum and Goteborg summit |
Pas de réforme institutionnelle sans refondation politique (English version coming soon) |
Meetings organised by Public Debate:
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Tuesday 23 October 2001, 6:00 pm |
François de Bernard The debate proceeded from the Article « Démocratie » of the Dictionnaire de la Mondialisation |
Librairie Filigranes, avenue des Arts 39, 1040 Bruxelles |
François de Bernard authored « L'Emblème Démocratique » (Mille et Une Nuits, 1998), a severe critic of the conditions of debate on political decisions at various levels. He is the co-founder and president of the Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche sur les Mondialisations. GERM is an international, not-for-profit group founded in 1999. GERM considers that "privatizing" globalisation by reducing it to its economic and political aspects is not a valid approach and favours looking at all forms of globalisation, particularly in education, the arts and science. GERM's aim is to pursue multidisciplinary research on globalisations and to elaborate proposals that will allow citizens better control over globalisation processes. |
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