The Europe Programme aims to be a forum for critical thought about European construction, from a clear Europeanist commitment. It assesses the progress of integration and enlargement of the European Union and the relationship between this integration process and the dynamics of the great world powers (in particular the United States), other international institutions of the European sphere (the Council of Europe, NATO, the OSCE), the foreign policy of its member states and the international activities of sub-national governmental actors. The Programme focuses on current issues in European integration, and especially on the new European energy policy and its implications for Europe’s international relations.

In collaboration with the other CIDOB Programmes, this Programme also seeks to analyse Europe’s role in the world and, especially, to identify and study what is unique and specific to the European contribution to other parts of the world, such as its regional integration model. The European continent itself and, in particular, south-eastern and eastern Europe, are the most significant cases in this outward projection of the European Union. Other objectives of the Europe Programme inclue the incentive to study these issues, the formulation of innovative proposals for political action and the exchange of experiences and best practices with new states that are being incorporated intoEurope’s institutional order.

All these questions are dealt with through a number of concrete outputs, such as the publication of articles, chapters, working papers and the organisation of seminars, workshops and discussion forums, aiming to generate new ideas and convey them towards European policy-makers. Since 1999, the CIDOB Foundation and AREL (Rome) have organized jointly the Spain – Italy Dialogue Forum, which brings together leading figures from civil society to deal with current political and economic issues that affect Europe’s present and future. Likewise, since 2006, it has also co-organised the Spain – France Dialogue Forum, with the same format and objectives.

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