CHINA-EU
A Common Future
edited by Stanley Crossick (Founding Chairman, European Policy Centre, Brussels) & Etienne Reuter (European Commission, Belgium)
Table of Contents (31k)
Foreword by Chris Patten, the last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 (23k)
A New Agenda (61k)
Chapter 1: Key Elements of a Strategic Partnership (64k)
Annex: List of Contributors (1,619k)
Stanley Crossick is the founding chairman of the European Policy Center, a Brussels-based, pro-active, multi-stakeholder think-tank, with some 400 organizational members. He has authored over 200 papers and books and delivered over 350 lectures and speeches, and is a frequent media commentator on EU issues. He is also Senior Adviser on China to the European Institute for Asian Studies (Brussels) and Conseiller to the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris). An English solicitor, he has worked for European integration since 1967 and has held various professional and political appointments, including President of the European Liberal Professions, Deputy Secretary-General of the EU Bar Association, Secretary-General of the International Union of Lawyers, Founding Secretary of the Law Society's Solicitors European Group, Member of the British Council of the European Movement and Senior Vice-Chairman of the AmCham EU Committee.
Etienne Reuter, a senior official of the European Commission in Brussels, is the visiting EU Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for the academic year 2006/2007. After graduating from the Law School of the University of Strasbourg (France) in 1966, he pursued a distinguished career in European organizations, first in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and then from 1977 onwards at the European Commission in Brussels. He served as an Adviser to President Roy Jenkins from 1977 to 1981. He later became the Commission's spokesman for the internal market, taxation and competition policies. From 1993 to 2000, he was the EU representative in Hong Kong, after which he spent 5 years at the EU delegation in Tokyo. From 2005 to 2006, he was the head of a special taskforce dealing with Greenland.
Negotiations for a new EU-China Partnership & Cooperation Agreement have just got underway and are likely to take two to three years. This is the first book to explore the wide range of issues affecting the China-EU relationship, including the US factor, environmental issues, WTO, governance, trade matters, civil society, democracy, the RMB, energy security, arms embargo, UN reform, Taiwan, Japan, North Korea, Africa and many others.
The result of an intense, collaborative exercise between over 30 respected Chinese and European scholars, this timely book highlights the necessity of a China-EU relationship and why it will be mutually beneficial. Recommendations for the harmonious development of relations between China and the EU are offered as well.
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