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Institute for Democracy in Europe (IDE )

Institut Pour la Démocratie en Europe

197 Boulevard Saint-Germain
Paris
75007
France
Phone : + 33 0149 54 01 60
Email :

http://www.i-d-europe.org

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Non profit organisation

History

  • The Institute For democracy in Europe was created in 1996 by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, in order to contribute to the debate upon Europe, especially when it comes to institutional questions, at a time when many founding countries seemed to give up any ambition for a politically strong European Union.

Organisation/collective objectives

  • promote democracy at local, national and european levels
  • contrubute to the training of citizens and representatives
  • promote a large information to protect and guarantee the foundations of democracy

Main activities

  • publishing of studies and reports on european construction and european news
  • organisation of Institute working sessions followed by reports
  • coordination of a forum of debate opened to every opinion

Vision of Europe

  • Towards a Europe of States managing on the federal model the competences they decided to manage together

Strong points

  • important expertise on EU affairs and on EU functionning
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