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Current Challenges for the Future Transformation of the EU
1. Current Challenges for the Future Transformation of the EU dr. Žiga Turkprofessor, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaSecretary General, Reflection Group on the Future of EU, Brussels.
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3. Contents we living in the virtual and borrowing from the future there are real and current challenges: A,B,C,D can we go on? we can rely on 3 resources and match them to the challenges
14. While we should try to make go with the real and the present and reward it!
15. Crisis was a warning that we can not sustain blowing the bubbles some people and states living beyond their means financial markets not investing in new but changing the price of the old detaching itself from the real economy price hikes of oil returned the sense of reality which spread to other sectors
16. But there are challenges deeper than the crisis A – abundance, conceptual economy B – BRICS, globalization C – climate change D – demography ABCD
17. (A) We can not sustain our industrial, consumptioneconomy
18. (B) We can not sustain our dominant role in the world
21. ABCDare historic A – end of industrial, information age, dawn of conceptual economy (19th century) B – end of the dominance of the west (15th century) C – end of below ground energy and fossil fuels D – end of GDP growth pattern linked to population growth
22. “The trouble with our times is … … that the future is not what it used to be.” Paul Valery (French Poet, Essayist and Critic, 1871-1945)
31. people sun To be more specific rely on European values and care for nature and fellow human step up R&D in new renewable energy technology and energy efficiency energy efficiency now and overhaul of EU energy production by 2050 use the added value of the union size and power of the common market economy of scale synergies of r&d impact in member states impact in the world union
32. In conclusion we must get back to reality Abundance, BRICs, Climate Change Demography are the key challenges of the future in Europe we have the peoples hearts and minds the sun and the tools of the European Union to address them we must change lanes now!
33. “When it comes to your future there is no time like the present!” BNP Paribas ad.
34. Acknowledgements photos:Google photo search, Flickr charts:Erste Bank, Stanford University, WEO, IMF, NASA more information, author contact at www.zTurk.com