As we approach the season of the century, faced with the weariness of daily routine and the confusion arising from uncertainty, the Club of Rome boldly dares to present Europe as a project for peace and well-being and to express the encouraging vision of A Europe that breaks out of the geographical boundaries of the European Union and commits itself to the global challenge of building a more viable and fairer world. With the publication of this work, produced under the direction of Nicole Rosenshon, the Club of Rome wants to analyze what Europe stands for and what its future responsibilities will be, in order to outline a panorama that allows for the dawn of a new European Renaissance on the threshold of the 2 l s t century. Population dynamics and the future of Europe 117 - G l o b a l problematic educational initiative 133 - Learning to govern again: the Ukraine experience.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
From the very beginning, from different points of view and with a range of general or specific objectives, Fundación BBV has been involved as an institution serving society in various projects and documents relating to Europe, Europeanness and Europeanness. By participating in the events of the 25th anniversary of the Club of Rome, Fundación BBV had the opportunity to actively participate with its own working group and with special criteria in attempts to understand the essence of the feeling of Europeanness and everything European at the conference in Hanover in December 1993. In presenting this, our Fundación wants BBV to reiterate its gratitude for the opportunity it has been given to participate in pluralistic initiatives to promote a European future that may be less fragmented, less uncertain and less painful than the one reflected by al.
NOTHING IS MORE REALISTIC THAN UTOPIA
Let me follow this insight and say about the Club of Rome: «It is no more realistic than Utopia.
THE MISSION OF THE CLUB OF ROME
6 y Bertrand Schneider
The club also serves as a center for innovative thinking, capable of identifying new global problems before they emerge on the international scene, and then analyzing and seeking to understand those problems, focusing on their roots, not just their consequences. The club is not in a position to pioneer a cure, but has already taken a number of initiatives to provide avenues for solutions by influencing policy. The 25th Anniversary Conference of the Club of Rome in Hannover was another important step forward in our mission to contribute to creating a brilliant future for humanity.
INTRODUCTION
In the fifteenth century, Europe experienced a great wave of creativity and expansion related to the development of the individual. Here we are of course talking about the situation in almost all industrialized countries, with the exception of Japan, and not about the situation in the rest of the world. Europe is now caught between the opposing pressures of the centrifugal and centripetal forces sweeping the world.
EUROPE AT THE CROSS-ROADS: VISION 2020
D r . Ricardo Diez Hochleitner
Nowadays, the Europe of tomorrow is in the hands of a very small percentage of the world's inhabitants, due to its current demographic deficit. Faced as such, developments there represent one of the most important threats to the necessary moral authority for the future Europe now under construction. Europe's destiny is certainly not only in Europe or within the Triad and the G 7, but is increasingly linked to the future of the world.
FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
Violence and críme
They only account for facts that have been brought to the attention of the police - the people whom the victims did not bother to file a complaint about are therefore not listed. It is also important to note that international comparisons are difficult due to the differences between different countries in the legal definitions of offences. Regardless of the nature of the crime, it seems that the police in the various European countries are finding it increasingly difficult to catch the perpetrators, probably due to the increasing number of investigations that have to be handled.
EUROPEAN LIFESTYLES AND HABITS
Health care in the industrialized world takes up 5 to 14% of the family budget, while in poor countries it rarely exceeds 5%. In European countries, education represents an average of 8% of the family budget, in Portugal, Greece and only 5%. In the European Union, the lowest car ownership rates are in Portugal (170.1) and Greece (180).
In absolute terms, Eastern Europe has the largest number of museum-goers, especially in the countries of the former Soviet Union (approximately 175 million admissions in 1991). The total European production amounts to 920 feature films, more than half of which were produced in the European Union. In the European Union, Great Britain has the highest book production (64 million), followed by France (42 million) and Germany (16 million).
The highest are in Austria (10.1 per 1,000 inhabitants), followed by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (9.8 in the former Soviet Union; 7.2 in Bulgaria; 7.9 in Czechoslovakia and 8.5 in the former East Germany). The highest divorce rate is in the former Soviet Union (3.36 per 1,000 population), and the divorce rate in former socialist countries is higher than in other countries. In the category of main (non-motorway) roads, Italy is the most developed with 45,005 km.
A study carried out in 1989 shows that the average distance traveled each year by drivers in the European Union ranges from.
CHAPTER IY
WESTERN EUROPE AND ITS NEIGHBORS
However, a pan-European assembly like this only makes sense in the light of a clear idea of what we want for the future of the European continent. All this must come essentially from outside sources, mostly from Western Europe directly and undoubtedly interested in the rise. The countries of the rest of the world thus occupied European population or exploitative settlements.
These factors are mainly influenced by the actions of the developed countries, especially the European countries. If so, does Europe still have a role to play in this part of the world? Some countries try to uphold democratic principles (including India), while others impose an irrefutable dictatorship (Myanmar).
Is it not justified that Europe is sunk with itself in the initial establishment of the European Community. But cooperation with the rest of the world should not detract from the task of establishing internal coherence. American statements do not emphasize that the region should also cooperate with other parts of the world.
Canada is undoubtedly in the sphere of influence of the United States and the countries that were grouped together in 197.
THE CHALLENGES TO EUROPE AND TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
The definition of refugee status in the 1951 Geneva Convention is now interpreted more restrictively. The next and probably the most important long-term consequence of the demographic transition is a dramatic change in the age structure of the population. First of all, it will come and is already partly solved by improving the quality of life, but basically it is about the quality of the population.
The second challenge that humanity must face is that of education in the broadest sense of the word. The much-needed reform of the European education system must prioritize training. One of the motivating features of the approach will be the use of computers and modern visualization in reasoning about global problems.
Part of the reason jobs are disappearing in the industrialized world is said to be related to the need to be globally competitive. It is unclear to what extent Europe will still be economically competitive with the rest of the world in the year 2020. Differences between member states of the Community are likely to be exacerbated by the social dimensions provisions of the Maastricht Treaty.
And it's not just the workers at the low end of the totem pole who are affected. With this significant reduction in available work and the increase in the number of unemployed, we are entering a new society that requires a radical change in our perspective. Incidentally, it is only at the end of the last decade that the unit of fui.
STRATEGIES TOWARD EUROPE 2020
Or, conversely, we rest on the solid ground of the current situation to extend the trends. Today it is unthinkable to expect that democracy is the expression of the people's general determinaron. Even in the countries of the former Soviet Union, the population stopped going out to vote after the first elections.
Part of the reason for this is the deterioration of the concept of public power. The stronger the power of the European Parliament, the less outdated the European institutions will be. The manipulations of the dollar weigh more heavily on the world trade balance than the G A T T agreements.
Until now, the legitimacy of the European system has derived from the procedures and commitment of national parliaments. The above is one of the reasons that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union. Actually, it was based on the dominance of the Russian majority over all others.
However, the basic principles of the Northern Confederation can be outlined, based on its needs it is supposed to respond to. In the Far East, the strength of the Japanese economy and the yen have also been a hedge against chaos. Therefore, the optimization of personnel and management organization should be seen as a priority task.
THE HANNOYER DECLARATION
The collapse of communism, the implosion of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany and the war in the former Yugoslavia suddenly forced us to rethink the nature and role of Europe in the new world order. Redefining it as a cultural and political process for a new common European development, the European Union - with the support of the United States and Japan - should formulate cooperation plans to achieve the reconstruction of Central and Eastern Europe. Some ideas are given in the forthcoming report of the Club of Rome "Governance".
Such summits will help to increase a sense of European identity among the citizens of the constituent countries. We endorse the work of the Council of Europe to bring together all countries in Europe to work together on the principles of democracy, and human rights and responsibilities. The new technologies must be aimed at the general human interest rather than the economic improvement of the few.
This must include a reassessment of occupation and leisure in all people's lives and should be based on the process of continuous learning. If governments put more emphasis on the challenge posed by the arrival of immigrants - such as through the provision of multicultural education - then we recommend both a better public information campaign and a greater recognition of the rights of minorities in Europe. They often fail to educate the general public about the full extent and complexity of the changes now taking place.
With peace, political stability and economic prosperity, Europe would be one of the largest markets in the world by 2020 – and thus able to compete with the other economic groups in North America and Asia.
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