The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook Series Constantine Arvanitopoulos Konstantina E. Botsiou Editors TThhee CCoonnssttaannttiinnooss KKaarraammaannlliiss IInnssttiittuuttee ffoorr DDeemmooccrraaccyy YYeeaarrbbooookk 22000099 123 The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook Series Series Editors: Constantine Arvanitopoulos Professor of International Relations at Panteion University General Director, Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Konstantina E. 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Finally, we are deeply indebtedtothescholarsandpolicymakers,whoseworkisincludedinthisvolume, fortheirparticipationandcontribution. v Contents Introduction ...................................................................... 1 ConstantineArvanitopoulosandKonstantinaE.Botsiou TransformingSouth-EastEurope:AChallengeforSmartPower .......... 9 DoraBakoyannis Greece–France:ANewAlliance ............................................... 15 NicolasSarkozy TheCzechPresidencyoftheEuropeanUnion:AReturntoRoots ......... 21 MirekTopola´nek QuoVadis,Europe? ............................................................. 27 WolfgangSchu¨ssel The‘Promise’oftheLisbonTreaty:ACriticalReading .................... 35 DimitrisN.Chryssochoou ClimateChangeandItsEffectsinGreece .................................... 41 StavrosDimas UnionfortheMediterranean,orNicolasSarkozy’sVoluntarism inInternationalRelations ...................................................... 47 Fre´de´ricAllemand DoesTooMuchRegulationStifleEmployment? ............................. 55 StefanoRiela vii viii Contents GreekIdealsintheAmericanDemocracy .................................... 67 PaulSarbanes TheMiracleandtheDefects ................................................... 73 GeorgeTh.Mavrogordatos Euro–AtlanticRelationsFollowingtheElectionofBarackObama intheUnitedStates ............................................................. 79 AntonisSamaras TheForgottenCrisis:RisingFoodPrices ..................................... 87 AsterisHuliaras OntheRoadtoDamascus:TowardsaNewEuropeanPolicy ontheMiddleEast? ............................................................. 93 SotirisRoussos TheUnrestofthe1960s:CommonGroundsandLegacy .................... 99 CharalambosPapasotiriou TheReturnofCulturalPropertytoItsCountriesofOrigin .............. 103 GeorgeAnastassopoulos Index ........................................................................... 109 Contributors MrFre´de´ricAllemand Senior researcher at the Foundation for Political Innovation, and Lecturer in EU LawattheParisInstituteofPoliticalStudies DrGeorgeAnastassopoulos President of the General Conference to UNESCO, Ambassador–Permanent Delegate of Greece to UNESCO and former Vice-President of the European Parliament MrsDoraBakoyannis MinisterofForeignAffairsoftheHellenicRepublic DrDimitrisN.Chryssochoou AssociateProfessorofInternationalOrganizationatPanteionUniversity MrStavrosDimas EuropeanUnionCommissionerforEnvironment DrAsterisHuliaras AssistantProfessorattheGeographyDepartmentofHarokopioUniversity DrGeorgeTh.Mavrogordatos Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration,UniversityofAthens. DrCharalambosPapasotiriou AssociateProfessorinInternationalRelationsatPanteionUniversity MrStefanoRiela ResearchfellowattheFondazioneResPublica,Milan ix x Contributors DrSotirisRoussos Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Head of the Study Group for Middle East and Islamic Affairs of theUniversityofPeloponnese MrAntonisSamaras MinisterofCultureoftheHellenicRepublic MrPaulSarbanes FormerUSSenator MrNicolasSarkozy PresidentoftheFrenchRepublic DrWolfgangSchu¨ssel FormerChancellorofAustria MrMirekTopola´nek PrimeMinisteroftheCzechRepublic