Hace ya más de un año realicé con el instituto un viaje al parlamente europeo en Estrasburgo. Para ir me preparé un pequeño trabajo sobre la importancia de los valores europeos compartidos, la cual ahora he encontrado por casualidad limpiando mi ordenador. Por supuesto, leída ahora, con el tiempo a mis espaldas hay muchas cosas que habría cambiado de aquella hoja de papel que me sirvió para reflexionar acerca del mundo en que vivimos. La dejo aquí integra y sin cambiar nada, con errores y todo, para que conserve la esencia de aquel momento. Espero que os guste.
THE IMPORTANCE OF SHARED EUROPEAN VALUES
It is a fact that in the last
century Europe has lost its role as a superpower able to lead and influence the
world. Now, with the current crisis we live, we have given more importance to
economic troubles than political ones. We have placed on the hands of
technocrats who distribute our resources towards the economy and undermine the
values that have cost us so much time to force. This is the dangerous limit
that separates understanding the welfare state as a social right of the
understanding it as a privilege.
These changes affect us, young
Europeans, with more intensity because they will determinate our future. But it
is unfair. Our lives cannot depend on economic stability. And now it is time to
stop looking to Europe as a market and Europeans as consumers. Conceptualizing
Europe as a market belittles us as citizens.
To advance in this ideal of
union we must rid ourselves at looking only what divides us and focus on what
unites us. Maybe our past is different but we share future. Language is one of the main
obstacles. We will not be able to see each other as siblings until we were able
to understand us when we talk. No language is better than another but we must
not fall into the hypocrisy of saying that they are all equally important. We
must be practical and use the language as a tool to communicate not as a weapon
to defend our nationalism. Because that is not the way to move forward. We must also try to make the
European Union more participative with its citizens. Create large European political parties and
that they compete with each other for the presidency of the parliament. It does
not care if the chief candidate is northern or southern, eastern or western.
But these changes will not be
proposed by national politicians because they will be the biggest losers if we
cede sovereignty in favour of the union. They have to be the people themselves
who built this multicultural space and the feeling like they were at home
beyond the frontiers of our countries. Then, maybe, politicians will work
seriously for the union beyond the economic one.
