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This paper argues that the EU should adopt a systematic approach to defining a complete set of seven common European policy spaces, with multilateral institutional developments to match, thus bringing together bilateral and multilateral approaches. The study emphasizes that the overarching institutional mechanism should be created by transforming the present 'European Conference' into a structured 'Pan-European Conference' that should be led by a coordinating group consisting of the EU, Russia and a few other rotating places for non-EU states, including institutionalized linkages to the Council of Europe and other European multilateral organizations for the specific common policy spaces.