Now, as we witness a Greek tragedy and an unbelievable failure of European politics, which will trigger further tendencies of disintegration and renationalising attitudes across Europe, it is more important than ever to sketch out a bold idea of what Europe, in principle, should look like in the twenty first century – if it is to get itself out of the mess of this crisis.
We should remember these days, that the real enemies of Europe are not the Greeks; our enemies are outside Europe, awaiting the unravelling of Europe's richness and precious set of values, in order to buy it off or take it over on the cheap. The argument that follows attempts to profoundly re-think, re-design and re-build Europe on a fundamentally different basis, in order to scale it up to a truly modern & post-national political entity, able to confront the challenges of the 21st Century. We submit this idea here at openDemocracy for European-wide discussion, to be of some service to the moment when Europe will decide to move out of this vicious, self-mutilating circle it is now in, able and willing to do a profound reset and take a fresh start.
Europe has to change drastically to be fit for the twenty first century. It has to transform into a European Republic, based on the principle of political equality between all European citizens.
