"The reason anti-Europeans can't imagine a future for Europe is that they can't imagine its present. They are trapped in the contradictions of EU member nations' misunderstanding of themselves. And this false picture of Europe's present is blocking its future development.
"I think I can demonstrate that the Euroskeptics have it exactly backward. The solution to the EU's problems is not more national realism. Rather, it is more Europe, more of the reality we are already experiencing-a cosmopolitan Europe. National categories of thought have created this impasse. National irrealism is Europe's problem."
Ulrich Beck - Understanding the Real Europe Download file
Posted by Francis Pisani at February 16, 2004 07:35 PM