15/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Bertelsmann Foundation from Berlin/Gütersloh and the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) at the University of Munich announced on 15 March in Berlin, proposals from their experts in Trans-Atlantic relations, to strengthen EU/US dialogue. This will particularly involve developing "G2 dialogue…economic issues, followed by the coordination of a global security concept". This dialogue will develop informally, via existing multilateral institutions. According to experts, the USA and EU should continue the same objective of "facilitating wide-reaching democratisation based on stable social and economic principles". Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the ECB, European Commissioner Pascal Lamy, CFSP High Representative Javier Solana, the president du Brookings Institute Strobe Talbott and an advisor to president Putin, Andrej Illarionov. (Info: Sabine Reimann. Tel.: 00 49 5241 818 175 and sabine.reimann@bertelsmann.de).