Europe in the Future!

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Europe in the Future!

• Sovereign Community
• or
• Multiple Nations

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Europe in 21st Century by

• Jeff Beck
• John Lepore

• Pisit Khumon
• David Wright

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Introduction

• What will become of Europe in the next Century?
• The United States of Europe?
• Can Europe become a sovereign state?
• Will Europe be the only Superpower in the world?

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Organizational Future?

• European Community (EC)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
• Potential Organizations

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Integrated Europe

• World Trade
• High Tech Industries
• Europes Resources
• An Uncommon Europe

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Common Market

• Vested Interests
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Income and Social Welfare

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Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

• Growing gap between industry and agricultural
  standard of living

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Common European Currency

• Benefits
• Political Control

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Power of European Institutions

• European Commission
• Council of Ministers
• European Parliament

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Foreign and Defense Policy

• Common European Defense
• Collapse of the Soviet Union

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The German Question

• How to achieve a harmonious relationship between
  the most populous, economically productive,
  technologically advanced, and military efficient
  nations in Europe and its smaller, less powerful
  neighbors?

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Demographics Trends

• The Graying of Europe
• High age of population
• Migration
• Effected by the border countries

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The Graying of Europe

• Declining of populations
• France
• 10 M people aged over 60 out of 55 M rise to 15 M
  by 2020
• West Germany
• Committing suicide 61 M to 45 M by 2030
  (forecasting)

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The Graying of Europe

• Ireland
• natural replacement level
• Overall Europe
• peak in 2000 (320 M) fall by 2100 (300 M) by
  forecasting

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Migration

• Germany, Austria, and Hungary
• Immigrants from the former USSR and Eastern
  Europe
• France, Spain, and Italy
• Immigrants from North Africa and Middle Eastern

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Immigration Concerns

• Not melting-pot society
• Not for forestalling future labor shortage

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Environmental Issues

• Degree of pollution
• Northwestern Europe and Scandinavia
• Mediterranean
• Overall
• clean energy taxes

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Types of Pollution

• The effects of global warming
• Rising sea level in low-lying areas
• Heavy-handed industrialization by Eastern Europe
• The massive growth populations surrounding the
  Mediterranean

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Other Concerns

• Overseas aid
• Europe countries contribute overseas aid for the
  developing world by average more than any other
  developed countries (Chart)

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Technologically-Driven Global Changes

• Biotech revolution in agriculture and food
  processing
• May lead to dependence on giant agrochemical
  conglomerates

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A Robotics Revolution Exists but Probably Wont
Become as Important as Advances in Biotechnology

• Decentralized
• Rare in European industry
• Rate of installation may be leveraged by Japanese
  factories

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Financial and Communications Revolution

• Multinational corporations
• Bankers
• Giant companies
• Consultants, engineers and merchant bankers
• Media conglomerates
• Airlines

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Problems with European Globalization

• Creation of a social gulf
• Contradiction of ECs aim to deepening economic
  and political unity

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Conclusion Europe 21st CenturyPros for
Unification

• Ease of currency exchange
• Migration and travel
• Improve technology transfer and communications
• Stimulate world trade and economy
• Stronger support for financial support to
  developing nations