There is Something Wrong in our Way of Doing Economy

There is Something Wrong in our Way of Doing Economy. 

Il y a quelque chose  de trouble dans notre manière de faire économie  

Es gibt etwas verwirrt in unserem Weg, Wirtschaft zu machen

         что выходит из строя в европейской экономике?

The Chaairman of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, is, probably, the best among present-day European leaders. He interprets his role with the outmost consistence, and, within the limits of the same, does not hesitate  to act as an outsider, for the sake of Europe’s interests. On April 30^th, Draghi, while announcing that, according to the forecasts of its Institution, recession will go on for two years Europewide, has announced the reduction of the discount rate for Euro to 0.5%, in or.der to foster recovery, even going  onthe introduction ,  foreseing  of negative interest rates.

Everyone gives for granted today that Europe means “Economy”; that it 's a must “to give confidence to markets”; that the only choice which is still possible is the one between “Liberalism” and “Keynesism”.As a consequence, the Chairman of the Central Bank has been granted very limited instruments for governing European Economics.

Those commonplaces have the inconvenience to forget that we, the Europeans, are about 1 billion people  (like all the Muslim put together, an three times the Americans); that our culture influences heavily (for good but also for the worse), the ones of the other continents, that, in Europe, there are three nuclear powers (Russia, France and UK); that our aggregate military expenditure amount to more than the ones of China and of Russia. At the end of the day, we would be a first class partner for  all the world, if we only would not manage , as we are doing  now, in a foolish way, our unique -cultural, ethnic, economic, technological and military- potentials.

For achieving such objective, it would bbe sufficient that we coordinate the huge hideden energies of Europe.

Hence, even just in the economic sector, “to make Europe” not only for overcoming the crisis, but for reaching a  level of worldwide excellence , as it should seem simply normal for an ancient and respected civilisation like ours

 

Princess Europe on the Next 5 Euro Banknotes.

Princess Europe on the Next 5 Euro Bills.  

La Princesse Europe sur le bancnotes de 5 Euros. 

Oни напечатали образ принцессы Европы на новой 5 евро  банкнот

 It was since a  time that also the European Central Bank should have  accepted the objective need to grant more space, on Europe’s official documents,  to cultural, emotional and mithic, elements.

In the new “Europa” series of Euro bills, the watermark will include the image of the mythic Europe,taken from a Campanian vase.

Among the “original sins” of Europe, we must account that “Elusion of culture”, which had been at the origin of the Diktat of the Ministries of Culture of the Council of Europe, issued in Blois, whereby they forbade member states to present, in ministerial programs, the birth of Europe as a long term phaenomenon, hence, a cultural one.

The "infamous" Huntington, who is known worldwide , unfortunately, only for his theory of the Clash of Civilisations, had criticized the critics of Identity, citing the case of a famous Jewish colleague, who, in a first time, published a book for criticizing the idea of Identity, and, later on, another book about Jewish Identity. On the comntray, a concrete reaction to the crisis of Europe could only take place via the re-discobvery of European Identity, to be understood as a “thick” cultural identity. 

Certainly, this “struggle against identity” has a “noble” background in the Millenaristic prophets of “the End of Man”. Identity is confused, according to these ideologues, with Original Sin. Thinking of myself as something different from the rest of the world would be, according to them,precisely that which has originated  Evil in the World. Only the sacrifice of Identity would allow to reconstitute the Paradise Lost, where neither scissure, nor contradiction, would survive.

Between these two apparently opposite points of view (from one side, the “black-and-white” view of those ideologues, and, from the other, actual reality), there are millenaries of historical experiences, who have tought us that, inasfar as we  give up our identity, we open the way to the most inacceptable violence from the side of Power.

As a consequence, “Identity” remains, for us, a bulwark of Liberty.

 

Why don’t Europeans Celebrate Europe’s Day?

Why don’t Europeans Celebrate Europe’s Day?  

Porquoi les Européens ne celèbrent pas le jour de l’Europe ?

Warum feiern die Europaeer nicht den Tag von Europa?

 почему бы не европейцы отмечают День Европы?

 

During the Day of Europe 2012 at the Circolo dei Lettori of Torino, Franco Cardini had expressed the deep frustration of Europe-loving intellectuals following to the non compliance, by Europe, with the promises contained in the Schuman  Declaration of 1951.

As it will be emphasized this year by some of the speakers at the celebration at the City Hall of Torino, the European Establishment (including European Authorities, National Governments, political and cultural elites) ,ignore, and even seem to suppress, this celebration. We have gone through different websites, in order to see, what people are doing, for this anniversary, Europewide, but especially in Turin and in Piedmont, and the outcomes are, as it goes without saying, as negative as ever.

 The prevailing explanation for this is that, because of the crisis of the Eurozone, the EU has reached the lowest point of its credibility. On the contrary, according to us, the reasons thereof are by far older. They arose already at the same time as the Schuman Declaration .In any case, the latter could not have been considered as a festival, if we take into account the condition in which we, the Europeans, had been reduced at that time. 

No doubt that, deliberately, the Declaration was something very limited. Which, from another point of view, would not have had any sense if there had not been some hope that, immediately thereafter, a new kind of people would have dominated the scene, people  bound by far less, to the establishment, and willing to affirm an autonomous European Identity. Such people could have been, for instance, the Federalists, De Gaulle, Helmut Schmidt, Servan-Schreiber . However, all of them , at their moment, after having completed their recitals, instead of becoming the warrying heroes of Europe, bent gently aside.

It is, however, too easy to attack always “the other”.

All of us have our own heavy liabilities, first of all a cultural one. During the many decennials which have elapsed since the Schuman Declaration, all of us would have had all the opportunities to re-address their own professional paths towards Europe, to focus on the study  of European history, to devote ourselves to European politics. All things which have not been done in the correct way by anybody.

Nowadays, such reflection and such engagement are necessary precomnditions for a new start. However, we cannot have,now, any reverence towards anybody: neither for the politicak establishment, nor for the USA, neither for Member States, nor for “maîtres à penser”. If a Europe would go on to exist as such, it Europe will necessarily disagreeable to many: no more junior partner, it should
have a pan-european political class, with pan-european political parties, and an integrated and assertive political system.