The challenges for Europe - and their solutions

Europe now faces two huge challenges

• One is the deteriorating security situation in our near abroad: Chaos in the Middle East and a military powerful, unpredictable and aggressive Russia
• A fast changing labour landscape that one is trying to paper over with quantitative easing, negative interest rates and currency wars, enriching the wrong people

Here are the solutions:

• Europe must be much more assertive in its common foreign policy. Europe must match the U.S. in force projection capabilities at least in Europe and its near abroad. Increase military spending to 3% of GDP and use it for defence against the east and peace keeping in the south and south east
• North Africa and the Middle East should be stabilised with free trade agreements and other agreements of cooperation. This may include programmes reeking of "neo colonisation". So be it. If Europe stays out, other forces move in, and a lot of people get killed, as we can see.
• Quantitative easing, negative interest rates and currency wars must be stopped and the full force of technology development and globalisation must hit the labour markets
• A citizens wage or negative income tax must be implemented to soften the blow to the people, especially for the ones getting hit the hardest by the winds of change
• Public services in the fields of policing and mental health must be expanded massively, due to the deterioration already caused by the turmoil, and for the future.