On October the 10th, Mr. Wolfgang Pape, former representative of European Commission stationed in Japan, paid a visit to our institute by invitation, and conferred with Professor Dai Bingran, Professor Wu Yikang, Professor Xu Mingqi, Professor Dai Qixiu, Associate Professor Xin Hua, and members of the secretariat of our institute, on the current sovereign debt crisis in Europe and its impact on European integration.