Why this blog?
Europe needs a new “European House” built on the visionary recognition that the age of narrowly-defined national competitiveness and natural resource abundancy is over and that we are entering a new age of interdependence and resource use optimalisation. What is needed is a “civilisation transformation”, a new Renaissance, resulting in new ways of production and consumption, new modes of governance and new institutions. The current European Union is in no way shaped to provide an answer to these challenges. On the contrary, current governance and policy structures of the EU will, in the long run, stand in the way of this new Renaissance.
Who am I?
I am not a Eurosceptic. My criticism of the EU originates in a completely different reading of the EU’s shortcomings and challenges. Traditional Eurosceptics are citizens who still apply 19th century nationalistic governance thinking to analyse the EU. My alternative critique is based in a 21st century reading which recognises that the world has ceased to be a mosaic of separate nation states and has become one “Spaceship Earth”.
A platform for new architects
Anyone who agrees with my vision for a new “European House” in invited to use this blog as a platform for brainstorming. We will also look at those who are still trying to reform the EU from within the existing paradigm but we will look at those through the glasses of the new paradigm to demonstrate that real innovative thinking and not “more of the same” will bring Europeans back behind the European project.
Willy De Backer
29 April 2007
