Pierre Defraigne


Pierre Defraigne currently serves as Executive Director for the Brussels-based think-tank the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation.
From 1970-2005 he served as a European civil servant as Head of Cabinet for Étienne Davignon, Director for North-South Relations, Pascal Lamy's Head of Cabinet and Deputy Director-General at DG Trade, European Commission. From 2005-2008 Defraigne also established and managed the Brussels-branch of the Institut français des relations internationales.
Pierre Defraigne is also Professor of economics at the Institutes for European Studies and at the College of Europe, Bruges, and is a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, China.

Recent Publications

Only Europe,
‘Bretton-Woods III needs a G3-Plus’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 7,
‘La Chine forcera-t-elle l'UE à l'unité politique?’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 5,
‘Seulement 176 millions d'Européens’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 4,
‘La fausse piste de la Stratégie de Lisbonne’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 2,
‘Barroso intergouvernementalisé!’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 3,
‘Les à-coups de l'intergouvernemental’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 8,
‘Le Parlement Européen sous le vent vivifiant de la crise’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 7,
‘La Crise défera ou refera l'Europe’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 6,
‘Leaping Beyond the Lisbon Treaty’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 5,
‘Taking No for a Question’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 1,