The Schuman Report on Europe, the State of the Union by the Robert Schuman Foundation is a unique, unequalled reference work on Europe.
Unique : it is a source of information, analysis and proposals in which the most eminent thinkers express their ideas: governance, federalism, the euro, regulation, European industry, European budget, energy, international policy, social model, a complete review of the European Union and its policies.
Unequalled: it is a practical tool with 34 unique maps, a summary of political and legal Europe, a complete range of statistics on the European economy.
This third edition is devoted to the means to implement to overcome the crisis with an exclusive interview with Jean-Claude Trichet, former President of the European Central Bank.
All 26 contributions in the in the Schuman Report on Europe, the State of the Union 2012 converge to one message: "the reasons calling on Europeans to stand together have never been as numerous as today".
Basing themselves on 67 commented tables and graphs and 34 colour maps, most of which are unique, the authors invite you to understand all of the challenges that the European Union faces today.
• Which European project to counter the crisis? EU governance two years after the Lisbon Treaty, from crisis federalism to project federalism, the Franco-German couple during the crisis, prospects for a European energy policy.
• Response to the crisis: a political vision of financial regulation, the budget: in support of a European solidarity pact, an investment strategy in the EU, the advantages of the European social model.
• Europe and the world financial imbalances, the EU's role in the Southern Mediterranean, European values in a new world context.
• The results of the electoral year, women's representation in Europe, European opinion and the crisis, normative production in the EU.
This work has been produced under the management of Thierry Chopin and Michel Foucher, and has been published by the Springer Verlag.