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Europe, Proposals for Freedom

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Date: 22 September 2009
Location: London, United Kingdom (BAFTA)

Fundación FAES (Spain) hosted an event in collaboration with the Stockholm Network and the Henry Jackson Society to launch a new report called Europe, Proposals for Freedom.
 
Europe, Proposals for Freedom analyses the major challenges that Europe is facing and proposes a series of measures the Union can adopt to address them. European integration after World War II was a success. The desired goals were fully achieved: peace and reconciliation for the European nations; security to ward off the threat of a totalitarian and expansionist model; cooperation based on freedom to reach goals shared by democratic nations and a common ambition for prosperity based on a free market economy.
 
Today, the goals might seem different, but they are not. We are at peace, but peace is not guaranteed. We need to avoid temptations such as diluting the Nation States into a superstructure lacking legitimacy or creating state-like entities which would only revive old conflicts. Overcoming the economic crisis requires openness, competition and integration so that European economies are more dynamic and create employment and wealth.
 
Speakers at the event were:
 
  • Jose Maria Aznar, former president of the Spanish Government and president of Fundación FAES; 
  • Lord David Trimble, Nobel Prize laureate and former first minister of Northern Ireland;
  • Alberto Carnero, director of the International Area of FAES Foundation and author of the report.
 
The directors of the Stockholm Network and the Henry Jackson Society, Helen Disney and Alan Mendoza, opened and chaired the event.