I like travelling. Often, I do it quite independently: the two of us with our bikes. In this way, I see a lot and get in closer contact with people than you are if I were using other forms of tourism. I can certainly confirm that the proverb “tarvelling (by bike) is an education“ is correct. On my travels, I learned a lot.
Among other things, I learned that a unified Europe can only work if it is a liberal federation of regions. Powerful national states are no help, they endanger a Europe made up of friends. The Europe and EURO centrism is also poison for a European union of the people.
In Europe, the social life is too multi-cultural and too rich in facettes. You cannot force some huge unitarism on those people. Europe’s citizens are too intelligent to give up their characteristics for a national Europe and dreams of great power. Fortunately, we do not have an exaltation like “God’s Own Country” (USA). Ideological and nationalistic visions of European superhumans are hard to imagine for Europe.
Even the Euro made no difference in that respect. There are many huge problems. One of them is the difference in income among European countries. A young lady with a “standard“ qualification gets between 2,000 and 3,000 Euros per month in Germany. Also in countries like Denmark, France, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, chances are quite good for her to earn reasonably well. It gets harder in Italy.
The same lady with similar qualifications will get a maximum of 20 % of this in the Baltic countries or Poland, in Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic or Hungary. This is true both for the EURO countries and the European countries. Yet the cost of living in the different countries do not differ to the same extent as the incomes. Especially the countries with the lowest income have an extremely high inflation rate. That is true both for the European countries where you pay with the EURO and those where you do not. Germany is inexpensive, the others have become more expensive.
Europe will not merge if seasonal workers migrate through Europe as lowest-income nomads. Nor will it unify if young women from countries with low average incomes prostitute themselves in the rich European countries.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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