“European Crisis”: A Tragedy or an Opportunity?
Can this situation be a kick start for a new Europe? Are we in the middle of a tragedy or at the beginning of an opportunity?
Can this situation be a kick start for a new Europe? Are we in the middle of a tragedy or at the beginning of an opportunity?
We should fight for a European Bill of Rights, which is the European Convention on Human Rights, and declare this to be our minimal standards for the democratic society we are constructing in Europe.
And I will end with a proposal for a new institutional framework, grounded on the understanding that we should recognize the confederal nature of the European Union, but that we should at last integrate true democracy in it.