On 14 May 2008 the members of the L’Esprit de Sel Group, a group invited by Marek Siwiec, Vice-President of the European Parliament, presented a report – Giving Globalisation a European Face – in the European Parliament in Brussels. The report discusses and gives recommendations on how the European Union should react to the multifaceted challenges of globalisation.
The Group consists of: Carl-Fredrik Bergström, Senior Fellow at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), Lecturer at Stockholm University, Stockholm; Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, Athens; Lykke Fries, Pro-Rector of the University of Copenhagen; Christophe Hillion, Professor of European Law and co-director of the Europa Institute, Leiden University, Leiden; Paul Hofheinz, President of The Lisbon Council, Brussels; Gaetane Ricard-Nihoul, Secretary General of Notre Europe, Paris; Pawel Swieboda, Director of demosEUROPA, Warsaw; and Tamas Szemler, Deputy Director, Institute for World Economy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.