Máster en Relaciones Internacionales y
Comercio Exterior
Módulo Unión Europea“5 debilidades de la Unión Europea”
“Sandra Marcos Hidalgo”
Profesor Alberto Romero AniaMarzo de 2010
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Welcome !
EUROPEAN UNION“Weaknesses of the EU”
“Sandra Marcos Hidalgo”
Lecturer Alberto Romero Ania
Aliter, March 2010
Introduction
La crisis actual está poniendo al descubierto las debilidades de la Unión Europea.
5 Debilidades 1. Torre de Babel 2. El viejo Continente3. Los sin Papeles4. Falta de Cohesión Social 5. Complejidad Institucional
Torre de Babel
The European Union is composed of 27 countries and has 23 official languages.
In the article 22 of the charter of the fundamental rights in the European Union it is said that the
linguistic diversity has to be respected
The article 21 prohibits the discrimination for the reason of the language.
Torre de Babel
Main Problem :
A lot of money and time for:
translate documents
interpreters in the meetings
Solution : Choose one common language
Torre de Babel
Proportion of pupils learning foreign languages in primary school, by language, 2006 (1).
Source: Eurostat Unesco, OECD
El viejo continente
Three factors are at the heart of Europe’s ageing society:
Persistently low fertility rates
High life expectancy
Baby-boom generations that reach higher ages.
El viejo continente
Source: Eurostat (tps00010)
Population by age class, EU-27 (1997)
El viejo continente
The population in Europe estimated for 2050 will be the oldest in the world
The question is : who will pay the pensions of this entire people?
The answer : the immigrants
Los Sin Papeles
The migrations are mainly produced by economics, politics and social events
The economic development of the EU makes it more attractive to people from countries less developed
The most numerous groups come from Turkey (2.3 million), Morocco (1.7 million), Albania (0.8 million) and Algeria (0.6 million)
Los Sin Papeles
Net migration (including corrections), EU-27 (1)
Source: Eurostat
Los Sin Papeles
"we should thank the European immigrants that we had pensions“Felipe Gonzalez. El País
The EU has to control the illegal immigration and help them to integrate in our society.
Falta de Cohesion Social
The EU is composed of 27 countries
To get a social cohesion between all the countries is a very complicate issue
The eurobarometer on the social climate in the EU found large differences between countries.
People in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands generally most satisfied with their personal situation.
Falta de Cohesion Social
The highest level of satisfaction was reported in Denmark, (+8.0), with Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland also having high levels. The lowest levels of satisfaction were reported in Bulgaria (-1.9), followed by Hungary, Greece and Romania.
Complejidad institucional
The EU has a very complex institution structure.
The citizens in the Union do not know how it is working. Especially young people
With the treaty of Lisbon the Union has tried to simplify the structure by removing the three institutional pillars
Conclusions
The EU is still under construction
The EU still needed some years to solve all this weaknesses
Needs to improve its migration policy
Needs to choose one language for the meetings and for the documentation
Has to simplify its complex institutional structure
The Social Cohesion will come out
Thank you for your Attention!
Have a nice day !!!