TEPSA has developed a longstanding tradition of formulating recommendations to to high-level officials of the government concerned of the incoming Council Presidency.

Brendan Donnelly, who coordinated the text, presented the recommendations to the incoming Danish Presidency on the occasion of TEPSA’s Pre-Presidency Conference on 8th and 9th of December 2011 in Copenhagen. The conference was organized on behalf of TEPSA by TEPSA’s Danish member: the Danish Institute for International Studies.

This text has been prepared by Brendan Donnelly (Federal Trust, London), and includes contributions from Graham Avery (TEPSA Board), András Inotai (TEPSA Board and IWE Budapest), Anna Jędrzejewska (European Institute Lodz), Maria Karasinska-Fendler (European Institute Lodz), Costas Melakopides (KIMEDE Nicosia), Hanna Ojanen (TEPSA Board and FIIA Helsinki), Visnja Samardzija (TEPSA Board and IMO Zagreb), Marjan Svetlicic (TEPSA Board and University of Ljubljana), Fabrizio Tassinari (DIIS Copenhagen), and Jaap de Zwaan (TEPSA Board and Erasmus University Rotterdam).