Europe has only 7% of the
world population, but 25% of world GDP, and concentrates 50% of global social
spending. It is a model worth preserving an expanding. The model faces enormous
challenges. But Europe has enough wealth to solve many of its problems as long
as it achieves coordinated solutions, that should be more federal than
intergovernmental.
For the first time, we
will elect a Parliament that will subsequently elect the President of the
European Commission, the executive body of the Union. Many of us would like
even more democracy than this, for example by directly electing a president by
universal suffrage, or by sending our national parliamentarians to rule on the
fiscal policies and social transfers in the euro zone.
On Sunday evening we will
probably be scared by the results of some anti-European nationalist parties in
some countries. These parties represent the worst of our past, and it is the
duty of decent people to stop them with our vote. But the founders of the European dream will
see that their construction is not under risk, and must rest assured that millions
of people will keep fighting to make it true. We must vote for decency and
progress towards a federal Europe, but be ready to keep fighting, because the
battle against the past is not linear, and will be far from over.
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