E' l'Europa che è costruita male.
Non è tutta colpa dell'Euro, anche se quest'ultimo ha fatto la sua parte.
Euro has acted as a Prima Donna in the European crisis. Most of the European citizens feel that the responsibility of all the economic crises we are experiencing is to be found in the fact that we have adopted too early a common European currency.
In particular in Italy: both too early and at a wrong rate of exchange with the Italian Lira.
Non è tutta colpa dell'Euro, anche se quest'ultimo ha fatto la sua parte.
Euro has acted as a Prima Donna in the European crisis. Most of the European citizens feel that the responsibility of all the economic crises we are experiencing is to be found in the fact that we have adopted too early a common European currency.
In particular in Italy: both too early and at a wrong rate of exchange with the Italian Lira.
This is obviously true, but 'this is not the main reason'.
In my opinion, the main responsibility of the economic-financial disaster we are experiencing is to be found in "the way Europe has been built up" or, more correctly, "in the way Europe's build up system has been conceived in order not to allow that a true European Nation could exist".
In January 1952 I was close to completion of my high school studies and I was selected, one out of hundreds of young people, to represent my college in a national competition organized in the name of the future Europe.
I stress the point: it was 1952.
The CECA (European Community for Coal and Steel) had been in satisfactory operation for more than one year and the excellent results, though partial at that moment, were clearly appreciated by everybody. Completely renovated communication and connection systems were being implemented across Europe. New railways, new roads, new bridges, new buildings were the tangible testimony of the success of the CECA. Cooperation was a reality even among countries that had been historical enemies.
"NEED" was the proper cement among the members of CECA.
Well! I sat together with hundreds of other high school young people trying to guess what a nation called Europe would be. Silence and mental concentration.
I found immediately a series of negative concepts. The first one, .... was dictated by dr. C.R.Darwin.
'If men are truly descending from monkeys, how can we expect they can seat together and find a common interest beside food and ladies?'
The Second one...'Who could reasonably be the big boss of Europe?'
and the Third point: 'the only way to do something acceptable would be to organize the Union in the American style, i.e. a real Confederation under a common government.
I felt that something positive could come out, at least theoretically, even from my pessimistic start position.
So! Let's put aside the first negative considerations and let's deal with the second point:
-- the big boss of Europe? Obviously a President.
He should be a reference point for a king or another existing president. He (at that moment it was not reasonable to think of a "she") should be the President of all the citizens of the Union.
But could we imagine that a Majesty would resign and become one in millions of European citizens? And how would a French President, affected by an endemic disease called 'grandeur', react to the fact that français could even not be selected as the official language?
What would dr. Darwin think of a similar situation?
"negative...negative!!"
What could I then imagine as an alternative to the European Confederation?
My contribution to Europe consisted then of a single page containing the following statement:
"Non so se Darwin abbia ragione quando scrive che l'uomo discende dalla scimmia. Credo però che vi siano molte conferme alla sua teoria e quindi..." full stop
The CECA (European Community for Coal and Steel) had been in satisfactory operation for more than one year and the excellent results, though partial at that moment, were clearly appreciated by everybody. Completely renovated communication and connection systems were being implemented across Europe. New railways, new roads, new bridges, new buildings were the tangible testimony of the success of the CECA. Cooperation was a reality even among countries that had been historical enemies.
"NEED" was the proper cement among the members of CECA.
Well! I sat together with hundreds of other high school young people trying to guess what a nation called Europe would be. Silence and mental concentration.
I found immediately a series of negative concepts. The first one, .... was dictated by dr. C.R.Darwin.
'If men are truly descending from monkeys, how can we expect they can seat together and find a common interest beside food and ladies?'
The Second one...'Who could reasonably be the big boss of Europe?'
and the Third point: 'the only way to do something acceptable would be to organize the Union in the American style, i.e. a real Confederation under a common government.
I felt that something positive could come out, at least theoretically, even from my pessimistic start position.
So! Let's put aside the first negative considerations and let's deal with the second point:
-- the big boss of Europe? Obviously a President.
He should be a reference point for a king or another existing president. He (at that moment it was not reasonable to think of a "she") should be the President of all the citizens of the Union.
But could we imagine that a Majesty would resign and become one in millions of European citizens? And how would a French President, affected by an endemic disease called 'grandeur', react to the fact that français could even not be selected as the official language?
What would dr. Darwin think of a similar situation?
"negative...negative!!"
What could I then imagine as an alternative to the European Confederation?
My contribution to Europe consisted then of a single page containing the following statement:
"Non so se Darwin abbia ragione quando scrive che l'uomo discende dalla scimmia. Credo però che vi siano molte conferme alla sua teoria e quindi..." full stop
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