A presentation to make Europe's condition more understandable.

1. for
without
by
LIFE IN EUROPE
with
of
along
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2. CORE CONCEPTS
societies what next? demography energy
pan-Europe social structures democracy
turning points polyphony
cooperation aging economy EU cohesion
innovation
tolerance durability environment governance
to work to stabilize emission of pollutants
raw materials banking and finance freedom
education impressions digital agenda stimulate
solidarity reforms institutions confidence
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3. SOCIETIES
Group of people that make up a semi-closed
system and within which interaction exists
between the members of that group who
form parts of that group.
They share elements of common feeling,
such as membership, influence, integration,
the fulfillment of needs and emotional ties;
a house, work and a place like a library,
cafes and other places to create social capital,
which is needed to promote cohesion.
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4. TURNING POINTS (≈ from 1815)
• industrial (r)evolutions
• Congress of Vienna
• revolutions
• wars
• loss of an artistic social movement
• Great Depression
• fall of communism
• fall of the Berlin wall
• collapse of the Soviet Union
• disintegration of Yugoslavia
• cyclical economic downturn
• emergence of global movements
• debt crisis
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5. TURNING POINTS (1/6)
Industrial revolutions (from ‘spinning Jenny’, via engines
and information society to digital era)
1815 after the fall of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna was
held by the victorious powers Prussia, Austria, Russia and
the United Kingdom with the aim of political reordening and
institutional reconstruction of Europe. Many issues, which
had arisen from the Frech revolution and the Napoleontic
wars, together with the dissolution of the Holy Roman were
settled.
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6. TURNING POINTS (2/6)
1830 and 1848 (consequences of the) revolutions
1870 French German war
Loss of an artistic social movement (Romanticism)
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7. TURNING POINTS (3/6)
1914 WW-I 1905 -1922 1930 Great Depression 1940 WW-II
Russian
Revolutions
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8. TURNING POINTS (4/6)
Fall of communism
1989 Fall of the Berlin wall
1991 Collapse of the Sovjet-Union
1991 - 1992 Disintegration of Yugoslavia
as subject of international law
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9. TURNING POINTS (5/6)
Until recently (2008 Lehman Brothers)
the 60-year economic high-cycle
2009 – 2013
• the period of debt and risk of
contingation, recognizing the
complexity of issues, damage-
repair, difficulty to get the future
on track
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10. TURNING POINTS (6/6)
continuation 2009 - 2013
• emergence of global movements ‘Occupy’,
‘Indignados’ and The Zeitgeist, which make a
protest against the power of the banks, the
bad sides of capitalism and outdated social
structures
• series of statements / agreements by HoSG’s
to strengthen economic governance and
governance of the eurozone
• 2012: Italy’s refinancing of 300 milliard,
French and Greek parliamentary elections, July: EFSF/ESM
From 2013
• 2013 ratify of the ‘Fiscal Treaty’ and ensure implementation of a balanced
budget rule laid down in binding law, September German parliamentary
elections
• end 2015 agreed measures implemented by Greece
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11. COOPERATION
In its simplest form cooperation concerns
things that are working in harmony next
to each other.
In more complicated forms, it can be
something as complex as the inner
operation of a human being or as social patterns of a nation
EU (member states and eurozone-countries), pan Europe (Balkans, Russia, GUAM),
Turkey, the US, BRIC-, MKIT-, CIVETS-countries, MENA, the rest of the world (incl.
Palestinian Territories, Israel, Pakistan, Iran)
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12. ENVIRONMENT
In general, surroundings of an object or the
natural environment, all living creatures
occurring naturally on earth or a region of
that, which comprises interaction
CLIMATE, NATURE, WATER
Coal, natural gas or oil for electricity, heating
or transportation produces pollution (CO2)
in the atmosphere. These daily emissions is
the carbon footprint
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13. GOVERNANCE
• EU’s multi level system of governance
• bilateral
• sovereignty
• (political) leadership
• Montesquieu
• confederation, united states of Europe,
intergovernmental, supranational
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14. WHAT NEXT?
• restrain / reduction of debt through growth and cuts
• building confidence, solidarity and tolerance
• (political) ideologies / concepts, forms of government and state, (social
) structures, systems, and rules, economics:
- humanism
- democratic, technocratic, autocratic, federalism, ….
- capitalism, socialism, liberalism, conservatism, individualism,
nationalism
• ‘Europe for Citizens’ (program 2007-2013 and 2014-2020)
• Europe 2020-strategy (7 initiatives)
• a next (r)evolution? (digital agenda, energy, innovation, money and
banks)
• 2014 European parliamentary elections (a possibility to create a
European political union?)
• ……….. ?
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15. IMPRESSIONS
• Foreign policy: the EU as actor on the world stage
• Financial policy: on SME’s and the financial crisis
• Greece
• European Union
• Innovation, low carbon vehicles and digital agenda
• Hungary
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16. IMPRESSIONS (1/4)
Brussels 18-03-2008: the EU as body on the world stage
Brussels 2010 Aspen 03-07-2009: Alan Greenspan
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17. IMPRESSIONS (2/4)
Athene 15-06-2011
Brussels 4-11-2008:
the future of Europe
Athens, 15 juni 2011
Athens 15-06-2011: helping Greece rebuild
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18. IMPRESSIONS (3/4)
Brussels 25-01-2011: Building a
viable Union Brussels 4-05-2011: innovation
Brussels 18-09-2011: Digital Agenda
Brussels 26-5-2011:
on low carbon vehicles
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19. IMPRESSONS (4/4)
‘In this period, democracy is at stake: Georgia in 2008, Greece and Italy changed in 2011 into a technocracy and
Boedapest 2008
now the Hungarian democracy is in danger. Reports say that Hungary is developing rapidly into democratic
problem child of Europe. Feelings of Hungarian people expressed already sadness to belong to the Hungarian
country. Even the European Commission, the European Parliament and the U.S. Government expressed for
months their concern about the democratic decisions of the new constitution, which came into force this week and
about other laws.
Let me quote Plato and Montesquieu, due to sides of the coin:
Socrates said to Glaucon: ‘ the less keen the would-be rulers of a community are to rule, the better and less divided
the administration of that community is bound to be, but where the rulers feel the opposite, the administration is
bound to be the opposite’'. (Republic, the Supremacy of Good’).
In a free state every person who posesses a free will, has to manage one's self-control. Legislature would then laid
down at the people. But seeing that something like this is in large states an impossibility, and even in small states
many difficulties are met, the people has to appoint representatives who must do all the people itself can not '.
(Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws 1748).
What conduct and regime to overcome the (transition) period and to manage new policies in a new era? How much authority when there is talk of
prudent leadership? That are rulers who are just keen enough to let come into existence a prudent administration. Rulers, equipped with general and
personal aristocratic leadership qualities, such as natural drive and inspiration, having the disposal of holistic vision, ability to enter into alliances and
with the art to combine.
With the world of ideas, the leadership also includes the gift to perceive the state of values and affairs, to seize on gladly seen mental states, to be able
to see how standards should be and to see how to achieve an ideal state as well as possible, operating by democratic principles.
European civilization is a synthesis of the Greek, the Roman and the Christian spirit, the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Tthe Greek spirit contributed
to the ideas of freedom, truth and beauty, the Roman those of the state and law, and the Christian those of faith and love.
I emphasize the hope that all governments, legislatures and communities can abandon the road of dictatorial administration (caused by any interest
whatsoever) in order to live democratic and in freedom.’
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20. LIFE IN EUROPE
societies
environment
turning points
governance
cooperation
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21. FINALLY
In December 2012:
 looking back from today
 grade of involvement
 ideas for increasing viability of Europe
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