Monday
27Mar2006
A call for a strong European Union
Monday, March 27, 2006 at 7:01AM
I don’t believe that the European Union should be a social contract. I don’t believe that bureaucrats in Brussels should be making laws based on moral values; we are too vast and disparate to be corralled into a single homogenised state.
But I am pro-European. I believe that only with economic integration, and liberalised markets, can we ever hope to modernise our stagnant economies, and compete in the second great wave of globalisation. Let us remember, that the entire world was dragged into a global conflict, when the last bout of globalisation collapsed, in the opening decades of the last century.
We have also seen that while Europe fiddled with its infighting, and social harmonisation, its international standing burned. The hopes and ideals of the single currency have been replaced with isolationist backwardness. As French students riot, against perceived Anglo-Saxon economic liberalisation, they send a message out to the world, that we Europeans are unwilling to give up our comforts, to deal with the realities of rapid global economic growth.
But I am pro-European. I believe that only with economic integration, and liberalised markets, can we ever hope to modernise our stagnant economies, and compete in the second great wave of globalisation. Let us remember, that the entire world was dragged into a global conflict, when the last bout of globalisation collapsed, in the opening decades of the last century.
We have also seen that while Europe fiddled with its infighting, and social harmonisation, its international standing burned. The hopes and ideals of the single currency have been replaced with isolationist backwardness. As French students riot, against perceived Anglo-Saxon economic liberalisation, they send a message out to the world, that we Europeans are unwilling to give up our comforts, to deal with the realities of rapid global economic growth.
Reader Comments (2)
What I cannot understand is how all the agreements that have led to what is now the European Union have not been the core of everything. Why a Constitution had to be approved by the European people in a moment when nothing was clearly understood by those very same people. Why the hasten in building a volume of so extraordinary proportions by a group of "Wise" with the attempt that it could be understood and subsequently approved by the "Vulgar many".
It looks like it was purposefully done so to make it wreck, and I wouldn't be surprised that this had been the real intention behind everything.
Perhaps I am becoming obssessive with politicians, but how the events have developed in the course of the last years have made me so.
And perhaps we would have to re-set out the full political aspects of everything.
Not an easy task, though.
hello, it's good idea...
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