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• Presentation FeelingEUROPE Foundation

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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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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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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

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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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TURNING POINTS (2/6)

• 1830 and 1848 (consequences of the) revolutions
• Loss of an artistic social movement (Romanticism)

1870 French German war
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TURNING POINTS (3/6)

• 1914 WW-I 1905 -1922 1930
  Great Depression 1940 WW-II
• Russian
  Revolutions

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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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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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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 HoSGs to
  strengthen economic governance and governance of
  the eurozone
• 2012 Italys refinancing 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

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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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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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GOVERNANCE

• EUs multi level system of governance
• bilateral
• sovereignty
• (political) leadership
• Montesquieu
• confederation, united states of Europe,
  intergovernmental, supranational

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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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IMPRESSIONS

• Foreign policy the EU as actor on the world
  stage
• Financial policy on SMEs and the financial
  crisis
• Greece
• European Union
• Innovation, low carbon vehicles and digital
  agenda
• Hungary

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IMPRESSIONS (1/4)
Brussels 18-03-2008 the EU as body on the
world stage
Brussels
Aspen 03-07-2009 Alan Greenspan
2010
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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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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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IMPRESSONS (4/4)

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  In this period, democracy
  is at stake Georgia in 2008, Greece and Italy
  changed in 2011 into a technocracy and
  
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  now the Hungarian democracy is in
  danger. Reports say that Hungary is developing
  rapidly into democratic
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  problem child of Europe. Feelings of
  Hungarian people expressed already sadness to
  belong to the Hungarian
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  country. Even the European Commission,
  the European Parliament and the U.S. Government
  expressed for
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  months their concern about the
  democratic decisions of the new constitution,
  which came into force this week and
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  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
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  the administration of that community is
  bound to be, but where the rulers feel the
  opposite, the administration is
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  bound to be the opposite'. (Republic,
  the Supremacy of Good). 
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  In a free state every person who posesses
  a free will, has to manage one's self-control.
  Legislature would then laid
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  down at the people. But seeing that
  something like this is in large states an
  impossibility, and even in small states
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  many difficulties are met, the people has
  to appoint representatives who must do all the
  people itself can not '.
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  (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
  

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LIFE IN EUROPE
societies
environment
turning points
governance
cooperation
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FINALLYIn December 2012 ? looking back from
today? grade of involvement? ideas for
increasing viability of Europe
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