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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-closedsystem and within which interaction exists between the members of that group whoform 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• cyclical economic downturn• emergence of global movements• debt crisis

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TURNING POINTS (1/6)

Industrial revolutions (from ‘spinning Jenny’, via enginesand information society to digital era)

1815 after the fall of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna washeld by the victorious powers Prussia, Austria, Russia andthe United Kingdom with the aim of political reordening andinstitutional reconstruction of Europe. Many issues, whichhad arisen from the Frech revolution and the Napoleonticwars, together with the dissolution of the Holy Roman weresettled.

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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 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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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 thenatural environment, all living creatures occurring naturally on earth or a region ofthat, which comprises interaction

CLIMATE, NATURE, WATER

Coal, natural gas or oil for electricity, heatingor transportation produces pollution (CO2)in the atmosphere. These daily emissions is

the carbon footprint

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GOVERNANCE

• EU’s 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 SME’s and the financial crisis• Greece• European Union• Innovation, low carbon vehicles and digital agenda• Hungary

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Brussels 18-03-2008: the EU as body on the world stage

Aspen 03-07-2009: Alan Greenspan2010Brussels

IMPRESSIONS (1/4)

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IMPRESSIONS (2/4)

Brussels 4-11-2008: the future of Europe

Athens 15-06-2011: helping Greece rebuild

Athene 15-06-2011

Athens, 15 juni 2011

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IMPRESSIONS (3/4)

Brussels 4-05-2011: innovationBrussels 25-01-2011: Building a viable Union

Brussels 18-09-2011: Digital Agenda

Brussels 26-5-2011:

on low carbon vehicles

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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 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.’

Boedapest 2008

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LIFE IN EUROPE

turning points

cooperationgovernance

environmentsocieties

FINALLY

In December 2012: looking back from today grade of involvement ideas for increasing viability of Europe

Presentation: FeelingEUROPE Foundation