July 2007 : N°12

•  Putsch in Gaza : the true face of Hamas 3
  Frederic ENCEL, Doctor in Geopolitics, Professor at the ESG and consultant in countries-at-risk
• USA / Europe: just how far does the divergence in their approach to environmental questions, go ?
  Jennifer VINCENT, Editorial Staff, consultant and the person in charge of communications at the Rights and care against violence Association
• Treaty and relaunch of the construction of Europe
  Jean-Pierre JOUYET, Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, responsible for European Affairs, France

The role of the regions in Europe

• Strategy and priorities of the EU’s regional policies: investment in innovation
  Danuta HÜBNER, Commissioner for Regional Policy
• Promoting the regions, the European Union’s vectors of dynamism
  Gerardo GALEOTE QUECEDO, President of the Commission for Regional Development in the European Parliament
• Immigration and integration policies in the regions
  Franco FRATTINI, Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security
• The role of the regions in the i2010 initiative
  Viviane REDING, News Information Society and Media Commissioner
• ‘Beyond homogeneity’
  Olli REHN, Commissioner for Enlargement
• Bulgaria and the European Union: What strategy for regional development?
  Asen GAGAOUZOV, Bulgarian Minister of Regional Development and Public Works

I. The Europe of the regions: a diversity that is difficult to grasp

• The Preliminary Balance of the Impact of Allocations from the Structural Funds on Regional Development in Poland
  Gra˝yna GESICKA, Polish Minister of Regional Development
• The regions and control of subsidiarity in Europe
  Jacques ZILLER, Professor at the European University Institute of Florence
• Decentralisation and subsidiarity are necessary to regional development
  Michel DELEBARRE, President of the Committee of the Regions
• The future of Europe is also about its partnership with local and regional authorities
  Jeremy SMITH, Secretary General of The Council of European Municipalities and Regions
• Cities : The future of Europe
  Jean-Marie BEAUPUY, Co-ordinator of the ADLE Group within the Regional Development Committee, Chairman of the urban-housing Intergroupe, deputy to the Mayor of Reims
• Europe’s outermost regions: specific measures aimed towards development
  Emmanuel JOS, Professor of Public Law, Director of the Research Centre for Local Authorities in the Caribbean UMR CNRS No. 8053

II. Sector-based types of innovative strategies: Encouraging trans-regional cooperation, creating synergy between the regions

• Basse-Normandie, a dynamic region at the heart of Europe: Europe is a priority for the Region
  Philippe DURON, President of the Basse-Normandie Region
• Basse-Normandie in Brussels
  Basse-Normandie Representative Office in Brussels
• MIRIADE* and the Lisbon strategy To make industrial investors and French and foreign researchers choose Basse-Normandie by preference
  Vincent LAFON, Director General of MIRIADE
• Regional Lobbying in Europe
  Klaus KLIPP, Secretary General of the Assembly of European Regions (AER)
• A project of international importance : Restoring the maritime character of the Mont-Saint-Michel
  François-Xavier de BEAULAINCOURT, Director General of Services of the Joint Council Baie du Mont- Saint-Michel, owner of the project
• The STRATINC Project, a toolbox for proactive regional innovation
  Patrick ABATE, Third Vice President of the Lorraine Regional Council, responsible for regional initiatives to provide economic support for innovative industries, advise the Council, and promote technology transfer