Europe 2030
Europe 2030

Summary/Abstract: “When thinking or writing about the future of Europe, it is hard to avoid falling into a trap of looking at it through pink-tinted glasses. The future always tends to look brighter than the presence. It also looks more promising and, paradoxically, less challenging than reality. In a way, this is a time-machine trip into the world of tomorrow's Europe. It could also be seen as an adventure. requiring the ability to read the future from a crystal ball. The changes, which are bound to come simultaneously, induce hope and fear, calm and anxiety, satisfaction and frustration, as the future of Europe determines the future of every one of us. It is widely understood that there are two separate/dominant political regions in the European geographical area today: 1. The European Union. a highly integrated association of parliamentary democracies and free-market economies with a common legal system, common architecture of individual and collective human rights and freedoms, and a broad consensus on the key questions of their political, economic, social and cultural development, and 2. Europe in transition, a community characterized by a large group of countries at very different levels of economic and social development, with extremely diverse scales of values, traditional backgrounds and recent experiences, but sharing very close ideas on their future. Some of these countries have made huge steps towards the Union, while others still face a long road ahead. The latter refers primarily to the Balkan countries, which also differ among themselves by the extent of commitments in order to comply with the standards and values of the EU countries.”[…]

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