The future of Europe (or rather, the Europe of the future)

Abstract

The author, member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (2009-2010, and since 2014) sets off from the recent European recovery after the years of tiredness gone through difficult breaches (North-South, East-West), exploited by powerful anti-European forces, and by diverse national contradictions. For the first time in that success story that has been the European process of construction and integration, the logic of taking advantage of the crisis so as to go forwards, was failing because the European narrative and the spirit of unity in the peace and in the progress that has always animated Europe, have been quite absent. Crises are not an insuperable obstacle for Europe, which precisely goes forwards setting out from the solutions found to them. As Monet used to say, Europe is forged in the crises. They are described by the author, and likewise the context and the signs of response, and he describes five pillars for the future of Europe in the governance of the economic policy, in the social pillar, in the solution of the migratory crisis, in the integration of the European security and defense, and in the reinforcement of the interior market in order to attain a competitive economy. The crisis created by the brexit for the process of European construction, is used as a fulcrum to explain the European federal idea, after which the author describes and defends a new European narrative.