The record of the European Union is bleak. So is that of France. We were promised peace and prosperity. We have recession. We also have prospects of war against Russia, without any real democratic debate.
First position: more Europe. For some, the European
Union isn't working because it hasn't gone far enough. In the line of
Maastricht and Lisbon, a more centralized Europe would be needed. More
power for the European Commission. The unanimity rule would disappear
in favor of qualified majority voting, particularly for the accession
of new countries.
Mario Draghi, former vice-president of Goldman Sachs, goes further: for
him, Europe must become a state. Nation-states would disappear.
This Europe would also expand by 2030. It would incorporate the Western
Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro,
Serbia), a region already under Saudi, Turkish, Emirati, Chinese, and
Russian influence. It would also incorporate Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey,
and perhaps Georgia. An appeal
signed by 50 public figures calls for a referendum on this
federalist turn. According to them, a complete federalization of a
37-member Union is being prepared without the French people's knowledge.
Second position: leave Europe. For others, since the European Union isn't working, we must leave it and regain full national sovereignty. This position has the merit of being more coherent than the first.
Third position: rethink a different Europe. A third path proposes rethinking a different Europe. Various modes of cooperation are possible, with arrangements different from today's. This path had already been considered in its time in the Herman report.
It is time to free ourselves from an imposed choice — that of the policies pursued since the Single Act. It is time to express our own choice, for example that of a virtuous development of our societies. This requires a debate that has never taken place. In a genuine democracy, two things should be possible:
This site advocates an alternative. It rests on four pillars:
A parallel can be drawn between the psychic evolution of an individual and geopolitical issues.
To change, at the individual scale, is to work on oneself. It is to work on one's mind, one's values, one's beliefs. Jung developed this work under the name of individuation. It involves a confrontation with the shadow. This same shadow is found in the way Europe has been built in opacity since 1984, since the rejection of the Spinelli project.
Building a new Europe requires understanding European identity. It also requires understanding the different mutations in Europe's history, in light of the Jungian process of individuation. It is on the basis of this understanding that one can envisage a new democratic structure, consistent with this data. One can also envisage a new architecture of intra-European cooperation. These points will be detailed in the site's various pages.
To change, at the individual scale, is also to get involved in the life of the city. It is to prevent plutocratic or pathocratic systems from taking power. It is to invent a new form of democracy, with real checks and balances. It is to regain national sovereignty, while organizing cooperation within a European Community. It is to put finance at the service of the economy. It is to humanize our societies, and to humanize international relations, so that international law is no longer flouted.
This requires, on the part of Europe — and the United States — a confrontation with their past, with their shadow: interference, manipulation, predation, wars, a pathocratic system. This requires abandoning the will to power and to predation. Finally, it requires fully accepting the evolution toward a multipolar world.
This program may seem utopian. The task is immense and complex. It touches the interests of states, financial interests, wills to power. It runs up against the evolution toward a surveillance society, and against the dehumanization of our societies.
This program first needs a citizens' movement to carry it forward — a movement in keeping with the great transition toward the third mutation.
“ Whoever controls people's fear becomes the master of their souls ” Machiavelli
“ The man at peace, free of hatred and fear, deserves to be called wise ” Buddha
“ Man is bound to know. Man is responsible for his ignorance. Ignorance is a fault. ” Milan Kundera