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ility for the enlarged Europe of 25. This means synchronizing the EU as an economic power, the EU as a stabilizer in the transformation process and the EU as a fledgling foreign and security policy player. To illustrate the extent of the recent development of various aspects of the EU foreign policy, the human rights and preventive diplomacy became central key instruments for regional democratization and stabilization process. The human rights policy advocates for vigorous and integrated insertion of human rights and democratization in the EU's aid programs and relations with the Balkan countries. Many of its treaties with other states already include such human rights clauses and on occasions aid has been suspended for perceived violations. At the beginning of the 21 st century human rights diplomacy has earned the status of a new chapter in the global diplomacy as a privileged domain for experimental EU political co-operation and common foreign policy and security. The issue of human rights, in general, has been tackled relatively late within the European construction. The Cold War period made the question of human rights less important, EC's international relations focusing mainly on economic cooperation. Thus, in case of the states that would conduct acts of terrorism for example, the EC member states would impose economic sanctions. It was only in the 90s that the human rights diplomacy succeeded in becoming a viable instrument of the European common foreign policy. Election process observation has increasingly become one of the most important processes within the EU human rights diplomacy. Its premises are to be found also in the engagements made within the OSCE in the prospect of adopting an assisted co-ordination program for election assistance and monitoring. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the EU decided that it was “morally imperative” and strategically necessary to overcome the historical division of Europe. Benefits and costs of enlargement process as well as the benefits and costs of non-enlargement have been calculated. The EU gave its full support to the new democracies in South Eastern Europe, and the prospect of membership. However, movement towards EU membership is uneven for the Balkan region as some states progress faster than others. Slovenia will be the first Balkan country to enter the family of EU in 2004. Accession negotiations are under way with Romania and Bulgaria. The rest are in a process of pre-accession high-level talks. The membership criteria adopted at the Copenhagen European Council require the applicant country be a constitutional democracy, and to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law. A functioning market economy and the capacity to deal with competitive pressure and market forces within the Union are also required. This means major adjustments to the applicant countries' institutions and administrative structures. In the 1990s, the EU's political, economic and social relations with the Balkan region focused mainly on crisis management and reconstruction, reflecting the countries' emergency needs at that time. The partition of the former Yugoslavia 54
and the separation wars that shook the entire region have left a deep mark on the EU and one might say the ongoing reforms the EU is going through are due to the 1990s events. Given the geographic proximity of the Balkans, and the EU's declared aim to create in the Balkans as well as in the Southeast and Middle East region a situation in which military conflict will become unthinkable, the EU got deeply involved in both political and economic diplomacy in the whole neighborhood stabilization process. From conflict resolution to political and economic diplomacy, and from the genuine human rights and prevention diplomacy, the EU has put at stake all of its diplomatic action assets towards the enlarged European Union and its CFSP consolidation. Emina POPOVICI, participant AEGEE-Beograd DiploFoundation, Malta EminaP@diplomacy.edu 55
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EUROPE'S (TORN?) IDENTITY RESULT BO
Page 6 and 7: PUBLISHER ADDRESS AEGEE-Ljubljana M
Page 9 and 10: CONTENTS GREETING . . . . . . . . .
Page 11: GREETING A great opportunity opened
Page 14 and 15: sent such a problem and modern tech
Page 16 and 17: Higher education AEGEE has a long h
Page 18 and 19: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS WORKING GROU
Page 20 and 21: ● Muslims & Europe, Muslims in Eu
Page 22 and 23: ● ● ● ● ● To provide the
Page 24 and 25: een a challenging experience for al
Page 26 and 27: MEETING POINT IN SLOVENIA The confe
Page 28 and 29: WHAT WAS IT LIKE? (Results of feedb
Page 30 and 31: ● ● Lecture rooms: The particip
Page 32 and 33: Bernd Knuefer: “Multi-level gover
Page 34 and 35: The concern among young people expl
Page 37 and 38: EUROPE'S IDENTITY - TO BE OR NOT TO
Page 39 and 40: Europe to the North. The Empire of
Page 41 and 42: EUROPEAN UNION - HORIZONTAL (WIDENI
Page 43 and 44: ● ● Most decisions will be take
Page 45 and 46: From the lecture ... ● ● ●
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Page 49 and 50: NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE EU AND SEE
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Page 53 and 54: additional resources but encouraged
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Page 59 and 60: Figure 1: East and Central European
Page 61 and 62: Friuli-Venetia Giulia, Italy, was a
Page 63 and 64: EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND MULTI-LEVEL G
Page 65 and 66: IN SEARCH FOR NEW EUROPEAN IDENTITI
Page 67 and 68: The formation and development of ne
Page 69 and 70: ● ● ● multicultural/intercult
Page 71 and 72: From the lecture ... ● ● ●
Page 73 and 74: EUROPEAN IDENTITY(-IES): INVENTING
Page 75 and 76: We are conscious of our differences
Page 77 and 78: cles of identity, allowing for the
Page 79 and 80: Europe has to fear the American myt
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Page 83 and 84: The recently announced enlargement
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Page 87 and 88: Introduction EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND
Page 89 and 90: The indicator of whether a country
Page 91 and 92: in Europe's policy today. This is a
Page 93 and 94: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Establi
Page 95 and 96: PRAGMATISM AS A NEW PARADIGM IN THE
Page 97 and 98: that a local identity progresses to
Page 99 and 100: 2. There is a great disparity betwe
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Page 103 and 104: people to both the European member
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to view our group as better than th
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symmetrical. This usually leads to
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From the lecture ... ● ● ● Wh
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women on traits associated with com
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To me, as a Belarusian in national
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