Energy and the Transformation Process in Southeast Europe [antikvár]

Foreword The past ten years of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe have also seriously affected the general framework of transatlantic relations and revealed the necessity of its revision. It, therefore, appears necessary to take an analytical approach in developing new fields of transatlantic collaboration and to reinforce these in practical terms through the development of viable transatlantic cooperation mechanisms and initiatives. The Transatlantic Learning Community (TLC) is designed to react to this change on both sides of the Atlantic. TLC is a joint project of the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Bertelsmann Group for Policy Research at the Center for Applied Policy Research and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. It seeks to stabilize the transatlantic relationship through the organization of learning effects drawn from a systematic exchange of experience in specific policy areas. Within the framework of "learning policy networks", experience-based solutions will be analyzed and conveyed to policy-makers and the public. In establishing the Transatlantic Learning Community, we envisioned that these networks of contact would remain in place long after our project has been completed and would continue to contribute to the process of innovation in our respective societies. Approaches to a successful transformation process have become important issues on the agenda of the Transatlantic Learning Community. Both the United States and the EU have been actively supporting transformation processes in Eastern Europe. Western support of these countries consists of a multitude of programmes, projects, economic and financial aid packages, political initiatives, association programs, and regular consultation forums. This sheer variety of the solutions contains the potential for constructive competition between ideas and projects, for efficient collaboration between the USA and the EU, on the one hand, and with the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, on the