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A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration

A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration.

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A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration

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  1. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration

  2. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration “No Member State can be forced to go further than it is able or willing to go, but those who do not want to go any further shall not prevent others from doing so” Hans-Dietrich Genscher German Foreign Minister 1974-1992 „…der Tag an dem die Zeitungen ihren verblüfften Lesern von jener Loyalitätsbekundung gegenüber Bush Mitteilung machten, zu der der spanische Ministerpräsident die kriegswilligen europäischen Regierungen hinter dem Rücken der anderen EU-Kollegen eingeladen hatte“ Jürgen Habermas German philosopher and sociologist “ (Der) 15. Februar 2003, als die demonstrierenden Massen in London und Rom, Madrid und Barcelona, Berlin und Paris auf diesen Handstreich reagierten. Die Gleichzeitigkeit dieser überwältigenden Demonstrationen - der größten seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges - könnte rückblickend als Signal für die Geburt einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit in die Geschichtsbücher eingehen.“ Jürgen Habermas

  3. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration „Die Bevölkerungen müssen ihre nationalen Identitäten gewissermaßen "aufstocken" und um eine europäische Dimension erweitern. Die auch heute schon ziemlich abstrakte staatsbürgerliche Solidarität, die sich auf Angehörige der eigenen Nation beschränkt, muß sich in Zukunft auf europäische Bürger anderer Nationen erstrecken. „ Jürgen Habermas „Überdies besteht Europa aus Nationalstaaten, die sich polemisch gegeneinander abgrenzen. Auch die Anerkennung von Differenzen - die gegenseitige Anerkennung des anderen in seiner Andersheit - kann zum Merkmal einer gemeinsamen Identität werden.“ Jürgen Habermas

  4. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration Developing a European Public Opinion communication + a topic of common interest ► local media taking up arguments brought up in other MS possible problem = language positive examples = Arte, meetings of the European Council

  5. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration „Einstweilen sind wohl nur die kerneuropäischen Mitgliedstaaten bereit, der EU gewisse staatliche Qualitäten zu verleihen.“ Jürgen Habermas “Kein Mitgliedstaat kann gezwungen werden, weiter zu gehen, als er es kann oder wüscht, aber derjenige, der nicht weitergehen möchte, soll auch nicht die Möglichkeit haben, die anderen daran zu hindern.“ Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German Foreign Minister 1974-1992

  6. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration Central aspects of Fischer’s analysis of the centre of gravity: • The centre of gravity should be non-exclusive but open • There should be mechanisms for a co-operation with “non-centre countries” and means to integrate those willing to participate • Those who are willing to go further should be able to do so • Those who do not want to go further must not prevent others from doing so

  7. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration Steps towards the finality of European Integration: • Expansion of reinforced co-operation between those states which want to co-operate more closely than others – for instance EMU and Schengen • Secondly and as an interim step could emerge the formation of a centre of gravity with own institutions • The integration sees its completion in a European Federation

  8. A Core, Avant-garde or Centre of Gravity and other ideas to enhance European Union Integration “… a Europe without reinforced co-operation or an "Avant-garde" will inevitably dissipate its energies as the distance between planned objectives and the concrete potential to attain them grows larger. As Joschka Fischer has said, Europe needs a 'centre of gravity” Jaques Delors President of the European Commission 1985-1994 “Far reaching reforms might arrive before we are in a position to shape them as full EU members” Victor Orbán Former Hungarian Prime Minister “…fear (of) erosion of the national sovereignty that (we)fought so hard to regain in (…) struggles against Soviet domination” Bronislaw Geremek Former Polish Foreign Minister

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