Notre Europe is an independent think tank

Think tank

A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

 based in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. Founded in 1996 by Jacques Delors

Jacques Delors

Jacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office .-French Politics:...

, it aims to "think a united Europe."

Research

Notre Europe's research is focused around four axes:

• "Visions of Europe" (European
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
   identity; European institutional reform)
• "European democracy in action" (transnational deliberative democracy; European think tanks)
• "Competition, cooperation, solidarity" (the CAP
  Common Agricultural Policy
  The Common Agricultural Policy is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies and programmes. It represents 48% of the EU's budget, €49.8 billion in 2006 ....
  
   post-2013; the European budget; a European energy policy)
• "Europe and world governance" (comparative regional integration
  Regional integration
  Regional integration is a process in which states enter into a regional agreement in order to enhance regional cooperation through regional institutions and rules...
  
  )

Notre Europe's main activity is to publish studies and to organise public symposia and seminars. Its publications are essentially produced in-house, but outside researchers and academics are also called on. Work is published in French and English, and occasionally German.

Notable debate contributions by Notre Europe include the organisation of Europe's first transnational deliberative poll, Tomorrow's Europe; a study on the poisonous budget rebate debate; an analysis of the 2005 rejection of the European constitutional treaty; an examination of European think tanks; a blueprint for a new "European social contract"; and a proposal to politicise European debate by linking the choice of European Commission president to European Parliament elections.

Notre Europe has been successively presided by Jacques Delors (1996-2004), Pascal Lamy

Pascal Lamy

Pascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade...

 (2004-05), and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa , Knight Grand Cross was a well-known pro-European Italian banker and economist who was Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance from May 2006 until May 2008...

 (since November 2005). It is a member of the European Policy Institutes Network

EPIN

European Policy Institutes Network is a network of 31 think tanks from most EU member states and beyond. Its main focus is on current EU and European political and policy debates. EPIN aims to contribute to the debate on the future of Europe through up to the minute, expert analysis and commentary...

(EPIN) and frequently works in partnership with other organisations.

Site

• Notre Europe
• Tomorrow's Europe, the first Europe-wide Deliberative Poll