What we need is a vision for the future. A new
vision that promotes economic, environmental and social sustainability,
ensuring well being and happiness for all.
Until now we thought that establishing a
parliament and council, making commercial treaties, eliminating customs and
creating a unified currency was enough to make a united Europe. But the idea
that we have today of Europe – especially for Italians - is completely limited
and superficial. The European continent is comprised of people from different
languages, cultures, religions, minorities, communities: in short, it is rich
in diversity. Today we know nothing about Europe. In Italy many people still
confuse Budapest with Bucharest; they think that the euro and European Union
are the same thing; no one knows which are the member states or anything about
history, traditions, language, politics or culture. The system itself hampers
integration and mutual understanding of the various parts of Europe, since
knowing and understanding each other means freeing oneself from the idea of a unique
culture.
My vision for the future of Europe is based on
regional and macro-regional level, where the nations/states lose their
centrality. The European region becomes the fulcrum, the keystone of economy,
culture and social relations, while exchanges between regions benefit the whole
union. The global economy, deregulated and ruthless, gives way to a regional
economy driven by a regional currency supported by a community currency for
inter-regional and international transactions. This development strengthens
local resources; promotes respect for the environment and for the land;
enhances human relationships and our relation with nature, increases local
employment; strengthens small businesses and artisans; a network of local
public transport; organic farming; and a responsible tourism. Cultural exchange
and mutual understanding between all European regions contributes to an ease of
tensions between different cultures and minorities which are still present in
many parts of our continent. Transylvania would no longer be Romanian or
Hungarian and would regain its unique identity emphasizing the exclusive
features of the site, whilst Macedonia would no longer be neither Greek nor
Slav, alongside all other disputed areas of cultural diversity.
In our schools we would study European
languages - each person would know three languages, of which at least one would be a
minority language. There would be a single European television channel that
would show various parts of Europe on rotation, in all languages, subtitled for
region; projects would exist to make foreign study and work placements
mandatory for all young people; new subjects would exist in public schools such
as sustainability (analyzed from every point of view), European history and
culture, languages and Eastern philosophies. Experiences and ideas should move across
regions rather than goods, collaboration and culture exchange will take the
place of competition and aggression. Many of the big companies and big
corporations will crumble in their futility and degradation that they will
cease to cause in the world. Policy and administrative decisions will be taken
by people who are directly connected to the region. The central power,
invisible and dominant - the influence of a dark and cruel economic and
financial system - will bow to the debate and deepening amongst people who
naturally come to determine their future.
A richness of diversity and interdependence,
cooperation and mutual support between regions that are united under a single
dream will feed an epochal overwhelming change.
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