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Módulo Unión Europea“5 debilidades de la Unión Europea”

“Sandra Marcos Hidalgo”

Profesor Alberto Romero AniaMarzo de 2010

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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 !!!