Pierre Defraigne

Pierre Defraigne currently serves as Executive Director for the Brussels-based think-tank the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation.^[2]

From 1970-2005 he served as a European civil servant as Head of Cabinet for Étienne Davignon (EU Commission Vice-President 1977-1983), Director for North-South Relations, Pascal Lamy's (EU Commissioner for Trade 1999-2002) Head of Cabinet and Deputy Director-General at DG Trade, European Commission.^[3] From 2005-2008 Defraigne also established and managed the Brussels-branch of the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI).^[4]

Pierre Defraigne is also Professor of economics at the Institutes for European Studies (Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis and Université Catholique de Louvain) and at the College of Europe, Bruges, and is a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, China.

Recent Publications

Only Europe, (Brussels: La Libre Belgique, 2009)^[5]

‘Bretton-Woods III needs a G3-Plus’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 7, (Dec., 2009)^[6]

‘La Chine forcera-t-elle l'UE à l'unité politique?’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 5, (Jul., 2009)^[7]

‘Seulement 176 millions d'Européens’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 4, (Jun., 2009)^[8]

‘La fausse piste de la Stratégie de Lisbonne’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 2, (May, 2009)^[9]

‘Barroso intergouvernementalisé!’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 3, (Mar., 2009)^[10]

‘Les à-coups de l'intergouvernemental’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 8, (Nov., 2008)^[11]

‘Le Parlement Européen sous le vent vivifiant de la crise’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 7, (Nov., 2008)^[12]

‘La Crise défera ou refera l'Europe’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 6, (Oct., 2008)^[13]

‘Leaping Beyond the Lisbon Treaty’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 5, (Oct., 2008)^[14]

‘Taking No for a Question’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Jun., 2008)^[15]

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