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With this book the author wants to convey the relevance of two vectors that are part of the European integration and the EU's personality: the value to be both project and process. The key themes of the book are European supranational democracy; the participation of the civil society in the EU; the interaction between European citizens and the European institutions; education as a key element of active citizenship; solidarity, participation, and communication in European and the necessary formulation of what Dr. Susana del Rio calls: a new European politics, where a shared responsibility is fundamental to the achievement of a quality European democracy. The author emphasizes that, to restore public credibility in politics, representative democracy has to lead the way, as representative democracy is complemented by participatory democracy.

Proceedings of the doctoral summer seminar, «Changing times. Germany in 20-Century Europe: Continuity, Evolution and Breakdowns», organised by the European Academy of Yuste Foundation in cooperation with the SEGEI network, in the Royal Monastery of Yuste and Palace of Charles V (10¿15 September 2007). Actes du séminaire doctoral d¿été, « Les temps qui changent. L¿Allemagne dans l¿Europe du 20 siècle : Continuité, évolution et rupture », organisé par la Fondation Académie Européenne de Yuste et le réseau SEGEI dans le Monastère Royal de Yuste et le Palais de Charles Quint (du 10 au 15 septembre 2007).

In a context characterised by the subversion of the European social model and of a commonly embraced principle of solidarity, this monograph aims to analyse the vectors of convergence, the cohesion factors and the changing paradigms of Spain and Europe's relation within the European integration process.

The outputs of the conference "European Union Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy, and Cooperation in the Mediterranean" presented in this book underline the importance of the Mediterranean for European politics from the outset.