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How can the EU be
transformed into
"The good European House"?
- on the long term, mechanical,
basic agenda of the EU-process for the period 1986 - 2030 and how to handle
it
What is the EU?
It
is, of course, on one level possible to argue for it as the expression
of an effort to weave together the economies of Europe in such a way that
it makes it impossible for "unreliable power hungry national politicians"
to start wars against one another in the future.
The
EC/EU works in that direction.
But
the EC/EU also has deeper roots and levels.
The
TEU has some of its roots in the Coal and Steel Community of 1951 and the
Treaty of Rome from 1957. And like "Rome", the EU too is not built in only
one day, or in one step.
After
preparatory work for decades, the EU has been built in two steps since
its dynamic new start during the mid 80-s, and the long-range, very conscious
work by Mr Jacques Delors and others.
During
the first phase; from 1986 to 1992, the "Single Market" was built, by first
transforming the "European Economical Communities" to the "European Communities"
and finally to "The European Community". Thereby, what later - with the
TEU - explicitly came to be called the "first pillar", was brought to a
preliminary end.
Facing
the second 6-year-phase, that took its start in 1992, the ground was laid
also for that which normally constitutes the "state functions" as such
of normal states, with the efforts - formulated with TEU in Maastricht
- to realize a "Common Foreign and Security Policy" and a cooperation in
the fields of justice and home affairs, termed the "second" and the "third
pillar" of the "European house" .
This
second phase is meant to come to an end in 1998, with the completion of
the "first pillar" in the form of an Economical and Monetary Union (EMU),
a single currency and a completely autonomous European Central Bank (ECB),
with the minimal inflation and the stable currency as the central goals.
This
intensification of the work to develop the cooperation in Europe has evoked
enthusiasm in a number of people, while it has evoked apprehension in other
people, who feel ever more pressed and awkward in the face of the dreams
of Europe as a "Great Power" they feel thereby come to expression.
THE GENERAL "HOUSE BUILDING PROCESS"
Is it possible to understand what this process
is the expression of, from an anthroposophical perspective?
Yes.
With the realization of the basis for the "first pillar" - the "Single
Market" during the first 6-year period after 1986, and the effort to realize
the "second" and the "third pillar" in their present form as expressions
for the "state functions" as such during the second 6-year period after
1986 with EU - a process has been started, that implicates five more phases,
not yet described, but implicit in the "building-process".
These
stages it is possible to describe, as the seven stages constitute the classical
stages of the basic building of "houses" into living, functioning "bodies",
filled with life, soul and spirit.
During
the first stage of the "EU-process" a legal "body" has been
built for "economical life" in all its aspects proper of the social
organism in the form of the Single market.
During
the second stage of EU, a "body" has now also been built
for the social and legal life between humans as a basic legal order,
in the form of the European Union.
During
the third stage in the building of social "houses" a "body" is
built for the soul, for cultural life for the future of the house,
of the organism.
And
during the fourth stage in the building of social "houses", a
"body" is built in some form for the "spirit" - for the "I" - of
the house, of the organism.
This
"I" that lives in this "egobody" of the organism then penetrates and transforms
that which has been built during the first three stages.
During
the fifth stage, this "I" penetrates and transforms that which has
been built during the third stage as a "body" for the soul, and tries to
develop it into something new as a free cultural life for the future.
During
the sixth stage, this "I" penetrates the social order that has been
built as a "body" for the social and legal life during the second stage
as the "Old Law " and tries to democratize and christianize it into
something new for the future as the "New Law".
And
during the seventh stage finally, this "I" penetrates what has been
built as a "body" for economy during the first stage and tries to transform
it into something new for the future as an ever more "brotherly", altruistic
economical life.
This
is the general pattern of the building process for social houses, social
organisms - described in very short and principal terms.
(click on the picture to get a bigger one)
The Ur-drama of the first seven mythical Roman
Kings
You find it described already by Livy in his
picture of the first seven mythical Roman Kings, as the founders of the
Roman Empire.
The
first was Romulus, who was raised to heaven as the god "Quirinius"
(not completely unlike Jacques Delors).
The
second king; Numa Pompilius embodied social order, he brought laws
for ordinary living.
The
third king, Tullus Hostilius, represented the passions. Under him,
the attacks against divine nature began, causing discord, struggle and
war, through which Rome became great.
The
fourth king, Ancus Martius, developed the arts.
The
fifth Roman king however; Tarquinius Priscus, was not engendered
out of the Roman organism, but was introduced into Roman culture from the
Etruscan culture, as also the last two.
The sixth king;
Servius Tullus, transformed the social order founded by the second
king; Numa Pompilius, and represents the canon of the law.
The
seventh king; Tarquinius Superbus, the "most exalted" one, however
was overthrown, as he was not able to maintain the high level of the social
system.
The
seven mythical kings of the first phase of the Roman Empire represent the
Ur-drama of the building of social "organisms", that also now comes to
expression in the building of Europe into a "house" - during a special
phase of its development - out of the economical sphere since 1985.
THE WAY FORWARD
The three "pillars" - seeds to a differentiated
European development
Is it possible to come to a picture of a possible
proper continuation of this house-building process?
How
can the EU-process be transformed in a "proper" way into something good?
Many
people already try to come to different conceptions of what a humanised
Europe within the frame of EU should look like.
One
possible starting point is the "three pillars" in the work of classical
house building tradition, that constitutes the roots of "the system of
three pillars" of EU.
In
the EU-process they stand out in a form, strongly directed towards the
development of Europe into a federal, unified superstate.
In
their original form, they are described already by among other Pherekydes
during the 6th century BC. He describes them as "Chronos" - as an
expression of "moral strength" to do the good, "Zeus" - as
an expression of "inner beauty", and "Chton" - as an expression
of "wisdom".
In
the human being, these qualities are connected with the possible goals
for her will, her life of feelings and her thinking.
In
society, they are connected with and an expression of the possible future
goals for the economical life, the legal and social life
and for cultural life.
One
later finds them described again by Plato, but now in a reduced form, in
his picture of the groups of the ideal society as he sees it and describes
it in his work "The Republic". He there describes how these groups are
- not three but - two main groups;
"craftsmen" and "the guardians"
- those who take care of the state functions proper.
This
second main group; the "guardians", however - according to Plato - consists
of two subgroups; "the warriors", who protect the state against
hostile powers and "the philosophers", who are the real rulers in
his ideal "state". These "philosophers" constitute the elite in his ideal
state, and to the questions that Plato treats in "The Republic" belong
how this elite is to be educated to fill its functions to rule society
"in the best way" out of their insights.
Another
starting point is the actual separation of the work of EU between the so
far allembracing Commission in Brussels, and the work of a Parliament that
has so far been reduced to a an instancy of remitment, in another city;
Strasbourg; two organs in a clear imbalance with one another in a way that
has euphemistically been termed the "democratic deficit" .
A
third starting point is the so far "wandering cultural city of Europe"
- the election by the Commission of a city in Europe to be "The cultural
capital of Europe" for one year.
THE "FIRST PILLAR" AND THE EU-COMMISSION
With these starting points, one sees that one
of the problems with the EU, the first and central, basic task,
is to transform the Commission to what it is in its essence and bears in
itself as a seed to become; an actual, factual organ of cooperation on
a European level for the main parties of economy on an equal basis, concentrated
on and limiting its work to the initiation and implementation of legislation
in the field of economy.
At
present, the Commission, with its construction and direction, its 24 General
Directorats (26 as DG I is divided into I A, I B and I C) and its monopoly
in initiating and implementing legistlation for the first pillar of EC/EU,
is almost completely characterised by the perspectives and interests that
flow from the leaders of the great industries and capital interests through
ERT; "European Round Table of industrialists" and CEPS; "the Centre for
European Policy Studies" .
ERT
consists of 45 leaders for European industries with totally three million
employees and a turnover of about 500 billion "Euros" per year. It constitutes
one of the most influential lobby groups of the EU.
CEPS
was founded in 1993 by about 40 transnational companies and banks in Western
Europe in cooperation with different foundations. Later, American and Japanese
interests have also joined CEPS. CEPS is a part of the political establishment
of Europe through its history, through being economically independent and
through having strong personal bonds with the top level of the Commission,
of NATO and of WEU.
If
one looks at the Commission, it is clear that it contains many wefts of
a "Round Table" -character and dialogues with representatives of many more
or less transnational groups in Europe, before different propositions for
legistlation are put forth in different areas.
But
its work is also based on "the four freedoms" for a producer-oriented
economy. These are what the builders of EU - from their perspective
- view as the proper expression for the "tools" , with which one in the
classical house-building tradition builds the "first pillar" of "houses"
.
This
"Mars"-character of the economy still corresponds to and is an expression
of the development of the human being up to the present time.
But
if you look forward, you also see that this one-sided and strong orientation
towards the interests of the producers and bankers belongs to the past.
In the future we have to develop much more of the "Mercurial" cooperation
in the field of economy, "brotherly" directed as much, if not more towards
the interests and needs of not ourself, but of all our fellows.
For this the EU
stands before the long term task to step by step deconstruct the remaining
"hierarchical" character of the Commission, still dominated by the interests
of banking, industry and business through ERT, CEPS and other well financed
and powerful lobby groups, and develop it in its essence into an ever more
"brotherly" "Round table"-organisation that in an institutionalised way
and on an equal, "brotherly" basis comprises all parties that in different
ways take part in the production and circulation of goods.
Is
this possible?
Yes,
if you take your start in an understanding of the essence of all "economy";
the circulation of goods. If you look at it, you see that the circulation
of goods in human society comprises four stages.
THE FOUR MAIN STAGES OF THE CIRCULATION OF
GOODS
The first stage is the "production" of goods
out of matter taken from the earth. The counterpole to this production
of goods is the "consumption" of them. To the consumer some of the main
interests are the quality, the availability and the price of the goods.
Between
these two interests the different "business"-actors mediate, from the wholesale
dealers to the shop at the corner, who transport the goods from producers
to consumers, helping the producers to find markets and the consumers to
find the right goods and getting them at a reasonable, fair price.
But
there is also a fourth stage of the circulation. It consists of the way
of the used rests of the goods, the residues, back to and through a new
stage of "nature". The feeling of the responsibility for not taking out
more from the Earth than it can give and not to poison it in such a way
that it will die "before its time has come" also has its main representatives
who can be found in the enviromental movements and the green parties around
the world.
Together,
the producers, the traders, the consumers and the green movements
and parties represent the responsibilities for the four basic stages
of the process of circulation of goods;
-
to make things out of nature that we need to build
our lives on Earth,
-
to distribute them,
-
to build our culture through and by using and and
consuming goods, and
-
not to take out too much of the Earth or poison it
with the left-overs of our culture.
Different
representatives for groups representing all these parties, that are responsible
for different parts of the circulation of goods, can be found in the work
of the Commission, but some mainly in a subordinated role.
Here
one finds among other ETUC; the European Trade Union Confederation, an
association of the 50 greatest main labor unions within EU, except for
the French CGT, and representing 47 million members. ETUC is consulted
when the Commission formulates its suggestions for legislation.
Another
organ is BEUC; European Bureau of Consumer´s Unions, an umbrella-association
for 23 national European consumer organisations that represent the consumer
interests in some 20 committees participating in the legislative process
of EU and in the Committee of Consumers of the EU-Commission; CCC.
According
to a decision in the Council of Ministers in 1990, a European Enviromental
Agency was to be erected with its seat in Copenhagen and the task of making
studies and summarizing information that can constitute the basis for decisions
in the environmental field. This has also been done.
It
was however not meant to get and also has not - as little as the European
Environmental Bureau in Brussels, behind which stands non-governmental
environmental organisations - got any controlling authority, which the
EU-Parliament demanded.
Of
the 24 General Directorats only one (DG V) is directly dealing with questions
of employment (and unemployment), one with consumer questions (DG XXIV)
and one directly with "Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection"
(DG XI) (two other Directorats however also support it in questions of
research on enviromental technique and energy; DG XII and XVII).
TRANSFORM AND DEVELOP THE COMMISSION!
To the most important questions and tasks in
the work to reform the EU in a longer perspective belongs the task to rebalance
the work of the Commission.
If
the EU shall be able to develop in a proper, timely, human, socially and
ecologically responsible way, the EU faces as the main, central task to
decide on an enlargment of the Commission, in pace with the East- and South-enlargement
of EU.
To
meet the needs of the near future, the Commission will have to institutionalise
new General Directorats, except for those that exist for questions of economy,
production, transport and trade, for also workers, consumers and "environmental
interests" on an equal, brotherly level with the economy-production and
transport-trade parties.
The
10-15 new necessary General Directorats that should in time be instituted
to deal more actively with the problems of unemployment, for small scale
business on a cooperative basis, for consumer-, and not least the many
important environmental problems, correspond well to the number of expected
new member-countries of Eastern and Southern Europe, and could also be
institutionalised in a natural way one at a time with a new Commissioner
from every new country that becomes a member.
At
present, the "Commission" is slowly, but steadily developing into ever
more of an also formal "Government" for the whole of the EU.
This
development is understandable and has deep roots, but is - today - completely
wrong and untimely. It would be totally wrong finally to institutionalise
the Commission as a sort of also formal government for the whole of EU,
with the Council of Ministers as a sort of "senate" and "first chamber",
superior to the the EU-Parliament as a sort of "second chamber" for the
populase.
The
Commission should be rebalanced to include General Directorats for all
the four stages of the circulation of goods on an equal and brotherly basis
in its structure - including coworkers, consumers and environmental interests
- and thereafter stick to and cultivate its task as a legislating-initiating
and -implementing organ in the field of the the "first pillar"; the economy.
Doing such an objective thing would make it into something really good
in the face of the future development of Europe and a source of inspiration
for also other parts of the world.
To
the tasks for the Commission also belongs the further development of the
"brotherly" relation to Eastern Europe, that strong forces are already
trying to realize. An important measure in this direction would also be
to fuse DG IV ("Competition") with the mixed DG XXIII to a new Directorate
dealing as much with questions of cooperation and of Cooperatives as with
competition into the near future in the field of economy.
"1998", EMU AND A "EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK"
In this context, the forced work to establish
a single currency for the whole of Europe in 1998 and the establishment
of a European Central Bank as an independant instrument for the steering
of the economy of all of Europe feels very troubling.
In
its present planned form the bank is meant to be essentially totally separated
from, independant of and retracted from all and every external influence
and regulation from organs like the EU-Commission, the EU-Parliament and
the Council of Ministers, even though its in the beginning of May 1998
appointed Dutch chief Wim Duisenberg has promised to keep up a regular
dialogue with the European Parliament. It is also meant to have as its
primal goal the minimal inflation and the stable currency, a goal to be
put before every other consideration and problem, like the enviromental,
human or social concerns, or the comprehensive unemployment.
Developed
in this way, the economical life will not only get a to a certain
extent necessary independence, but will also finally be given the absolute
superiority over every other social process in a potentially disastrous
way in the face of the further development of Europe.
How
important different quarters consider this central steering organ to be
for the total further development of Europe, is shown by the fact that
it, facing its third and last "fixation stage" - like the "Federal Reserve
Act" when it was taken by only three senators on the Christmas Eve in 1913
and signed by President Wilson the same night, and like the TEU when it
was formed in 1991 - was "protected" from the "danger" of having to be
discussed during the IGC 96 and thereby included and subordinated under
a somewhat more democratically steered part of the EU.
The
pushing through of the third stage of the EMU before the "Sacred" date
of "the 1st of January 1999", that is "1998", is the last "necessary" to
necessitate the transformation of The Commission into an also formal, but
improper "Government" over all of EU. As such, it is the "eye of the needle"
for the possibility to either steer the development towards the
by some wished for, powerful "(American-)European Empire", or away from
this Dinosauric/Tyrannosauric dream, towards the necessary differentiation
that the "pillar system" has laid the foundation for.
THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE
TWO SIDES PROPER OF THE "SECOND PILLAR"
- "FOREIGN POLICY" AND "HOME POLICY"
To the second main task in the reformation
of EU belongs the decision to strongly limit the tasks for the Directorat
on "External Political Relations" (DG IA).
The
work under the present "second pillar" for questions of Foreign and Security
policy should be strictly limited to the "Petersberg tasks" and completely
transferred to a very much strengtened and developed OSCE; the Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as its proper forum. "The work
under the "second pillar" proper of EU should instead be reduced to the
work that has so far been carried out under the "third pillar" and be kept
on an "inter-national"; confederative level, suggestibly in the following
direction.
The
European Parliament and the Council of ministers should develop an ever
more intimate cooperation with the corresponding organs of the Council
of Europe.
The
present right for the Commission to initiate legistlation in other fields
than those that directly concern economy and the circulation of goods should
be liquidated and transferred out of the work of the Commission.
The
right to initiate legistlation in some fields should be transferred over
to the EU-Parliament, the national Parliaments and the Council of Ministers
and the corresponding organs of The Council of Europe, for which procedures
will have to be developed - and the implementation of the legistlation
should be transferred to the Council of Ministers and the national Governments.
To
the questions the joint organs of EU and The Council of Europe should cooperate
around on a confederative level belong especially all questions that have
to do with the purely social life between humans and the coordination and
cooperation on questions concerning home policy (like part of DG V: "Social
Affairs" ).
The
Council of Ministers and the EU-Parliament must also, as more democratically
chosen organs, retain respectively get the possibility to review and reformulate
the frames for the work of the Commission and the European Central Bank,
and have as the main task to defend and secure the right of every human
to live a humanly dignified life in peace with his or her fellow humans,
regardless of his or her nationality, gender or possibility to contribute
to the production and distribution of goods and services. Here the parliamentarian
democracy still stands out as a model for the work.
The
present system of jurisdiction, with the forms of decision reduced to the
planned three for legistlation under the "first pillar" of EU also stands
out as something good for the time being.
With
time, the Commission and the EU-Parliament/Council of Ministers could also
be more clearly separated from one another, by moving the EU-Parliament
clearly more into Central Europe.
THE BUILDING OF THE "THIRD PILLAR" PROPER FROM
1998; THE "CULTURAL PILLAR"
At present, the picture of the three pillars
of the European house depicts the "third pillar" as the pillar for questions
of Home Policy.
This
picture corresponds to the "reduced" and "ruler-oriented" picture of society
described by Plato in his "Republic". But it also depicts the reduced picture
of man that was "decided" to be the "proper" one at the Ecumenical Council
of Constantinopel in 869.
Before
this meeting, in Christianity one had viewed man as composed of "body",
"soul" and "spirit". At this church meeting it was however decided to view
the spiritual in man, not as something independent and existing in itself,
but only as a quality of the soul. Thereby, man was reduced to a "body",
and a "soul" even if with some spiritual qualities.
This
reduced picture of man reflects Plato´s reduced picture of the "ideal
state" and today appears again in the present picture of the "three pillars
of EU".
The
"Ur-picture" for all good building work of the Temple tradition is the
building of the Temple of Solomon, according to the legend built as a three
part drama between Hiram, Solomon and Balkis, the queen of Sheeba. Viewed
as a "social house construction" in this perspective, the EEA-phase between
1986 and 1992 stands out as the phase of Hiram, the Master of the Craft.
The second; EU-phase between 1992 and 1998 stands out as the phase of Solomon,
the Architect.
Against
this background, the third phase in the building proper of Europe as a
"house" between 1998 and 2005 stands out as the phase of Balkis proper,
"the woman of star wisdom".
A
mirror of this picture can also be found in the symbol of EU with its 12
stars, with its roots in the picture of the "heavenly woman", dressed in
the sun, with the moon under her feet and her head surrounded by twelve
star, ready to bear her child, mediated by the Apocalypse (12:1-3). This
will undoubtedly constitute the basis for some drama around the turn of
the Millennium.
As
a counterweight to these dramas and the third main task for the EU
- and in the longer perspective - one can see the choice
and institutionalisation of a more permanent European cultural Capital
in the Western Slavic area - Prague is a very good one - except the wandering
and free one, as a seed and forum for the development of a free, spiritualised
European cultural life for the future and as an important bridge to Russia
and the Eastern Slavic area.
Here
belongs also the transfer of all questions concerning the multicultural
life of Europe out of the EU and over to a from EU totally independent,
European cultural organ, with its centre in Prague (like the present DG
X for "Information, Communication, Culture and Audiovisual" and DG XXII
for "Education, Training and Youth" ).
This
has been meant only as some short indications. But they stand out as some
of the things that have to take place and will take place sooner or later,
and our only possibility to do them peacefully is to do them consciously
now, if they shall not in 15-20 years begin forcing their way by more uncontrolled,
violent means, as the disastrous 100 years war between England and France
of the 14th century, the long and many European wars of the 17th century
and the two World wars during this 20th century, resulting from immature
- if understandable - ways of handling other, related problems.
A "counter-threefoldment"
One counter form to this necessary differentiation
of Europe is however also already developing (Brzezinski, Int Herald Tribune
2.5.94, Kolankiewicz, Int Affairs 3.7.94). It consists in the formation
of an axis, comprised of the three states of France, Germany and Poland,
with France and Poland as wings holding a strong and central Germany in
place and fixed in the function as the economic "motor" of the development
of Europe into the future, as a "mechanical heart", instead of as part
of the "spiritual heart" of Europe that it bears as a task to be.
This
development in every way misses the central points in the task of Central
Europe, but will undoubtedly be more or less carried through.
With
the Single European Act, the Maastricht Treaty and the Amsterdam Treaty,
a constitution for EU is now developing, that will put its mark on the
whole future of the present "European/West-European" cultural epoch, starting
with the Renaissance, in its development of a free, spiritualised cultural
life as an expression of the conscious and responsible human being, and
for which the central European idealistic tradition and the cultural impulses
and life of Eastern Europe are crucial and absolutely necessary.
We
are now heading for the next crucial act/treaty of the EC/EU-process around
2004/5, concerned with the questions of the fourth phase of the process,
its turning point.
TURNING POINT ...
The time between about 2005 and 2011 during the
EU-process that is being developed between 1986 and 2030, will probably
display the culmination of the forces and strivings that want to make Europe
into a federation, with the strife to finally institutionalise the "Presidency"
of the Union on top of the pyramid.
This
"Precidency" will then constitute a form of "Ego-organisation" for Europe.
For what "I" for Europe do those, that are now developing it in stages,
build it as a "body" to incarnate in?
The
"I" of Europe can not be materialised as authority for power for a "president"
in one human being. It lives and weaves in the social life between the
peoples of Europe, in the conscious warm interest we show our fellow humans,
independently of who they are and where they come from.
The
attempt to build an external symbol as a social and legal "body" in the
form of the "Presidency" for EU is a potentially bad omen, if it is not
being handled in the proper way.
The
forth basic problem of the EU-process consists in handling this problem,
having to do with the relation between the "economic" life of Europe
and its organ (the Ecosoc, the Commission and its "President" ),
the common "legal" life of the countries of Europe and its organs (the
national parliaments, EU-Parliament and the Council of Ministers and the
corresponding organs of the Council of Europe) and the "cultural" life
of Europe and its organs (with their center in the future European cultural
capital of Prague).
The
problem is dealt with among other already in the story by Goethe of "The
green snake and the lily". An elementary model for the solution of this
problem will possibly be the presidency of Bosnia, with three "presidents",
the President of the Commission, the President of the Parliament and the
President of the Council of Europe working together as a council.
... AND TRANSFORMATION
Between about 2011 and 2030 we will then - viewed
from the "mechanical" historical perspective of the leading Western groups
described in the beginning - be facing three difficult tasks, as a possibility,
"fighting" against or supported by the new constitution for EU.
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The first of these tasks; the cultural task
"2011 - 2018"
will be to transform the not yet visible "humanistic
power impulse" for Europe - in the spirit of Lyndon LaRouche, and Sorat,
the second monster of the Apocalypse as one inspirational and challenging
quality also behind the EMU - as well as the "spiritual power impulse"
for Europe - in the spirit of the "Catholic Church" - that one can intuit
will come to expression during the coming years, into further possibilites
for a free, timely cultural life, that trancends both that which is "technically
necessary" as well as that which is "spiritually necessary" into that which
is truly humanly freedom creating.
The second task; the democratic task
"2018 - 2024"
to transform the external "Presidency" of EU,
"lift out" the remains of "governmental power" in other fields than economy
from the Commission, and transform the "European State" that has been impulsated
as a "Union" into a true, democratic, equal legal life, built on social
justice and human compassion.
And the third task, the economic task
"2024 - 2030"
the most difficult one; will be to transform
that which has been impulsated as a "Single market", built on competition
between strong producers, into an ever more altruistic economy, built on
brotherhood, in all our common responsibility for the future of the Earth.
THE LONG TERM TASK FOR EUROPE
The different "Architects" and constructors of
EU are now building a "legal body" as a "house" for the future Europe out
of the perspective of economy, in a way that they think is right.
Above,
I have tried to show how this process looks in a somewhat wider perspective.
The
house is very consciously built. But it must not remain the tool for power
of the benevolent elite, that it has very much been, even if understandable,
so far.
It
must be transformed out of that element which is good in it, so that it
becomes a house for all the peoples of Europe, also those that today,
mostly in Eastern Europe and Russia, have been put on the street as a result
of "economical necessities" .
The
role of Europe in world history has been central since the Renaissance
- for better and worse - and it will surely continue to be important far
into the future. But it must into this future consist in dissolving all
striving for external power and all external power instruments, as also
many have expressed in their struggle against the nuclear tests, that one
member of EU has considered necessary to be able to develop nuclear arms
further into the future.
Europe
should instead cultivate its task as a mediating factor and a bridge between
"East" and "West" and as a possible cultural inspirator "with a heart"
- with not only the culture of Western Europe but also of Eastern Europe,
and into the future ever more also of Russia, as a great inspirational
well, but with a great respect for the role of all cultural groups of humanity.
In
that work we are all responsible to form and build the "European house"
to an inspiration for a humanly dignified life, as a part of all our common
responsibility for the future of mankind and for the earth.
Only
such a "good house" can also be generous and open to those that do not
live in it, to visit freely and take part in.
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