European Values and Globalization
European Values and Globalization

Summary/Abstract: Good Governance, Social Market Economy, Culture and Education are the decisive elements for Human Development. We need a third way between the extremes of the Utopian Global Free Market and a new nationalism. A Social Market Economy and the European Model of a Union could be such third way. For a new Social Market Economy we need a renaissance of the European dialectics between culture and society, idealism and materialism, religion and enlightenment, solidarity and profitability. The balancing of those poles is deeply rooted in our best traditions. There are different sectors of public life following different signals and not only one economic signal for all of them. Different sectors of our public life should be in a sustainable balance. We have to search for new compromises beyond flexibility and security (Flexicurity), beyond competition and cooperation (Coopetition).

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