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  1. forwithoutbyLIFE IN EUROPEwithofalong Presentation: FeelingEUROPE Foundation

  2. CORE CONCEPTS societies what next? demographyenergy pan-Europesocial structuresdemocracy turning points polyphony cooperation aging economy EUcohesioninnovation tolerance durability environment governance to work to stabilize emission of pollutants raw materialsbanking and finance freedom education impressions digital agenda stimulate solidarity reforms institutions confidence www.feelingeurope.eu

  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. www.feelingeurope.eu

  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 • slipped capitalism • emergence of global movements • debt crisis www.feelingeurope.eu

  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. www.feelingeurope.eu

  6. TURNING POINTS(2/6) 1830 and 1848 (consequences of the) revolutions Loss of an artistic social movement (Romanticism) 1870 French German war www.feelingeurope.eu

  7. TURNING POINTS(3/6) 1914 WW-I 1905 -1922 1930 Great Depression 1940 WW-II RussianRevolutions www.feelingeurope.eu

  8. TURNING POINTS(4/6) Fall of communism 1989 Fall of the Berlin wall 1991 Collapse of the Sovjet-Union 1991 - 1992 DisintegrationofYugoslavia as subject of international law www.feelingeurope.eu

  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 www.feelingeurope.eu

  10. TURNING POINTS(6/6) continuation 2009 - 2013 • emergence of global movements ‘Occupy’, ‘Indignados’ and The Zeitgeist, which make aprotest against the power of the banks, the bad sides of capitalism and outdated socialstructures • series of statements / agreements by HoSG’s to strengthen economic governance and governance of the eurozone • 2012:Italy’srefinancing of 300 milliard, Greek parliamentary elections, direction French politics, 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 www.feelingeurope.eu

  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) www.feelingeurope.eu

  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 www.feelingeurope.eu

  13. GOVERNANCE • EU’s multi level system of governance • bilateral • sovereignty • (political) leadership • Montesquieu • confederation, united states of Europe, intergovernmental, supranational www.feelingeurope.eu

  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?) • ……….. ? www.feelingeurope.eu

  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 www.feelingeurope.eu

  16. IMPRESSIONS(1/4) Brussels 18-03-2008: the EU as body on the world stage Brussels 2010 Aspen 03-07-2009: Alan Greenspan www.feelingeurope.eu

  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 www.feelingeurope.eu

  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 www.feelingeurope.eu

  19. IMPRESSONS(4/4) ‘In this period, democracy is at stake: Georgia in 2008, Greece and Italy changed in 2011 into a technocracy and 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 everyperson 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.’ Boedapest 2008 www.feelingeurope.eu

  20. LIFE IN EUROPE societies environment turning points governance cooperation www.feelingeurope.eu

  21. FINALLYIn December 2012:  looking back from today grade of involvement ideas for increasing viability of Europe Presentation: FeelingEUROPE Foundation

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