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mercoledì, maggio 25, 2005
Vecchia Europa e nuovo mondo. Un magistrale Martin Kettle spiega le cause del ritardo tedesco ed europeo rispetto al modello britannico e alle sfide del secolo americano-asiatico:
There was nothing wrong with the postwar settlement for the Europeans who benefited from it, especially for those who had survived the terrible years of 1914-45. But it was only sustainable as long as the millions who languished under communism were unable to get their share of the prosperity, security and freedom that western Europe enjoyed. Once communism collapsed, the privileges and protections that were essential to the western settlement began to be unsustainable economically and, in an important way, morally too. This is the world we all now inhabit. It is a world in which Britain, because of the premature destruction of its own post-1945 settlement, is better equipped to make the transition to the market-economy-dominated 21st century than the older nations of the European Union. Now it is the turn of Germany, struggling to reform but highly educated and highly skilled - the key assets for any developed economy in this changing global economy - to go through its own version of that painful transition. The great challenge for our part of the world is to make the transition from the national and European protectionism of the 20th century to achieve competitiveness in the Asian and American-dominated global economy of the 21st, while at the same time negotiating as well as possible the social and communal disruptions that will inevitably accompany the process. No nation will succeed by opting out. All the European nations have to make the best job they can of it. Some, such as Italy and France, have hardly begun to try. Others, such as Germany, are making progress. Britain, by a combination of luck and judgment, is further along the path than most. Meditate gente, meditate. |
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