New Year New Life? While we wait that with the new wave and vaccines The virus languishes until the end is intuited, in the same way that Europe has put all the mechanisms at its disposal to fight it together, opening a new horizon in the common project requires facing other challenges not to be left behind.
Strengthening all prevention and alert mechanisms will take us some deep transformations, if we want that Europe remain a common welfare space and of defense of universal rights and values. The first is undoubtedly the imminent crisis of the climate change. The voice of the scientists is as critical as it is clear: we are too late to stop it, but we can still fight it and avoid disaster.
Related news
Our production and consumption models are harmful. The necessary changes are not easy, but there is no alternative. Funds Next Generation, the financial pillar of the European Union for the coming years already allocates almost a third of the resources to promote the green transition. Together with digital transformation, the other great challenge of our production model, the change that is coming has the scope of what was the industrial revolution. Labor and fiscal policies are needed to leave no one behind. At the same time, people from outside will have to come, so we must work in an immigration framework, beyond criminal demagoguery towards the most vulnerable, that gives meaning to integration and progress.
The current climate of polarization does not help. Populisms threaten the common space and take advantage of all previous challenges, from the pandemic to immigration, to fuel an apocalyptic message. There are new radical movements to the left and right, however it is the extreme right and the ultranationalist movements that are advancing the most and posing a real threat, parallel to that which occurs in the United States. There are no national solutions for all these challenges. Europe is the way, today the only possible horizon.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com