"50 years together"

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http://www.50years.eun.org/ww/en/pub/50years/info/finalists.htm
http://www.futurenergia.org/shared/data/50years/50years_list_finalists.pdf

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Sausio 24-ą dieną Unesco klubas surengė komedijos apie atominę bombą peržiūrą.

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Edwin Starr - War (What Is It Good For?)

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„50 metų drauge įvairovėje”

Unesco klubo nariai sukūrė filmuką ir esę, su kuriais dalyvauja konkurse „50 metų drauge įvairovėje”, skirtame paminėti Europos Sajungos 50-ąsias metines.


Ab esse ad posse (From being to knowing)


Jose Socrates recently said: “The EU can now turn to the rest of the world and say we are a much stronger union”. European Union has already solved many issues, such as the enlargement eastwards or the creation of a strategy to reduce pollution. Other issues, such as Turkey’s admittance or energy independence from Russia are being worked out gradually. Therefore, in this essay we are going to discuss other two problems which EU will surely face by the 2050 and present some potential solutions.

The bureaucracy will be the real threat to the constructive and fruitful EU work. The Union has an immense bureaucratic apparatus, which will continue growing together with the process of enlargement. The Balkans have both the willingness and the potential to join the EU. It is a very positive step, yet the management question should be raised. Secondly, the separation of powers should be reconsidered in order to avoid unnecessary rivalries. In the future, it is going to be increasingly more difficult to understand whether the issue should be solved on the national or the EU level. Although it may look like a minor obstacle now, it surely will cause a lot of inefficiencies and other problems in the future.

The bureaucracy problem could be solved by implementing the subsidiary principle. The subsidiary principle is defined as the process of problem solving at the most local level. Thus, in order for the issue to be raised in the union level, it should first be assured that it is impossible to solve it at the local level. Furthermore, the EU should ultimately ratify the constitution. The document would separate the powers officially and would help to reduce the bureaucracy problem.

The second problem the EU is going to face by 2050 is ageing of the European citizens. According to demographic research, by the 2050’s there will be three times more people older than 80 years, and the quarter of all European individuals will exceed the age of 60. Such ageing of inhabitants will cause significant problems in the labor market. Workers will face more burdens because they will have to give a greater fraction of income to social security. In addition, inevitably more spending will be devoted to the medical care. All in all, the ageing citizens of the EU will put a burden on the budget and will question our economic competency in the world.

The solution to the problem is straightforward. The social security system should become more liberal. In other words, people should save and collect their own pensions rather than having the working people take care of the elders by providing pensions. Besides, more supply-side macroeconomics policies could be implemented. Postponement of the pension age, liberalization of the labor market and reduction of restrictions on immigrants are some of the potential solutions.

Taking everything into account, by 2050 the EU should face two major problems: growing bureaucracy and ageing of the population. The effects of these problems on the EU are well-known. If we act quickly, these challenges could be solved in near future.