A report on the future of the Union was presented in Brussels in recent days. With the title “Construction of a political Europe”, it forms part of the contributions to the debate within the Intergovernmental Conference called to draft the Constitution for the newly enlarged Europe. The document, which bears the signature of former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Tito Boeri, former president of the Bundesbank Hans Titmeyer and Portuguese Nobel prize winner Josè Saramago, contains 50 proposals to permit the “transition to the political Union, necessary for tackling the challenges of the future”. Starting out from the certainty which is also an alarm bell for the Union that within the next 30-50 years people will speak of an “American bloc, a Chinese bloc, an Indian bloc and perhaps even a Brazilian bloc”, without any certainty of the existence of a compact European bloc, the report recommends the reinforcement of the Euro-Mediterranean policy, the promotion of industrial and research policy, the reinforcement of the European social model and the boosting of the EU budget.
