EUROPE and the EURO.

Or OUR future.r.

December 2011

What is the future of Europe ????

Do we want to grow???? And what are we willing to share ???

How can we grow strong and stronger???

Only by changing !! And a lot of people will not like any changes and therefore halt progress.

I have to admit I am a royalist, but at the same time royalty has no longer a direct place in a Europe that wants to grow and compete on the world market.

Look at the British Empire and at the Kingdom of the Netherlands. World powers before the last war and now just as much members of the EU as all the other states. Kings and Queens now have ceremonial roles, far different from their previous roles as Head of State. I am sorry to say that I see no future for these ruling families in the future of a new Europe.

What is their role once we sort of have a President of Europe????? No more than a puppet and who wants to be seen as a puppet ?

If countries want to be a member of a United Europe we may want to take a look at the United States. How much as we do not like to compare ourselves with Uncle Sam. There we see states united under one flag, with one language, one dollar and with one government in Washington DC. If we want to copy part of that we must give away local and national powers to an elected European Central Government. And we better see to it that we will have more elected parties than the two in the American electoral system.

I always think about my grandparents who were born just before 1900. The changes they have seen in the world are far larger than the switch we have to make.

It is a lot about emotions now.

Do we lose our King or our Queen, our flag our national anthem, maybe our language??? All nasty things, but something has to give in order to proceed. Do we lose control of our own little national destiny, YES. But what do we stand to gain?????

We have to look to the future. If we do not take steps soon we certainly will lose out to the big ones of the future China, USA, India, Brazil, Russia.

We the people have to decide what destiny we want.

Just chose.

With love,