The European Republic is under construction | Ulrike Guérot | TEDxMünchen

[@iche9373]

One Europe, One Republic!

[@jaymaston1957]

This beautiful woman presents a vision of a future for Europe. I for one would very much like to see a European Republic built around our citizens. Much still ahead.

[@ProNice]

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. Personally, I would very much like to live in an European Republic governed by this egalitarian principle. We would be able to preserve the cultural identity of smaller regions and distribute wealth withing european Boundaries more equally and with greater efficiency. We could also tackle bigger problems, that individual nations are not fit to solve, like the migrant crisis or national unemployment and healthcare issues, by sharing resources.

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

ProNice Are you on drugs?

[@axolot9097]

I totally agree with you

[@ProNice]

@@bernardmcavoy1864 no, that would be illegal. But legalizing certain substances would make it feasable to control and tax the usage, just as it would reduce the market for gangs and cartels and enable new medical treatments.

[@ProNice]

@@axolot9097 Thank you mighty Axolot

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

@@ProNice My comment was meant to be sarcastic. In the English-speaking world, when anyone says "are you on drugs?", they are implying that what you have just said belongs to the realm of fantasy or is delusional. Are you German? You are certainly literal-minded enough to be.

[@heikeschmitts4665]

She is doing a very good work... and explain what happend with Europe .

[@mariob7791]

Congratulations for the clarity of the proposal, it is really inspirational. Biggest problem to go there, I suppose, is to overcome the existing political system at country level where political power games are extreme, where people is manipulated in it on a misleading and daily basis, while not existing any visible intention to pass the power to people on a higher degree as proposed. Anyway, congratulation in helping to point in a positive direction, hoping that next parlamentarian elections may get some of these good seeds inbuilt. There is light at the end of the tunnel!

[@ikkarus87]

Totally agree. And in the wake of globalization and free trade we need an international court to protect people from all countries from exploitation .

[@janpeeters8538]

thank you, I was waiting for this kind of perspective. I believe in Europe as the start of a new world organised around its people, around life, around love...

[@neptunianman]

agreed

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

Keep on taking the medication.

[@theflyingspaghettimonster6462]

If we had 1 European President (Head of government) directly voted by all EU-Citizens (EU27) who do you think would we end up with? A conservative or a liberal or a socialist person?

[@neptunianman]

i don't think we would have a European president, or anyone with that kind of power. Authority would be more saturated among a large amount of people, and therefore, to answer your question, there would likely be a huge spectrum of different orientations within the eu leaders.

[@herbertdarick7693]

I support your proposal. I am from the Low Rhineland (Nederland).

[@sanftervulkan]

Sie argumentieren klar und verständlich. Wie ich bei Pulse of Europe in Frankfurt am 4. November 2018 sagte: wir brauchen leidenschaftlichen Pragmatismus für die nächsten Schritte, z.B. für die Europawahl 2019. Aber wir brauchen auch eine konkrete, verlockende, lockende Utopie. Genau das ist die Europäische Republik. Gerne habe ich das von Ihnen mit herausgegebene Buch "Europa jetzt!" in Publik Forum besprochen. It's about people, not about states. Looking forward to the BALCONY ACTION on Saturday 10th November in Frankfurt Römer, 4 p.m.

[@BenjaminKeller]

So basically what you want is Switzerland all over Europe 😂

[@exocet8834]

Minus the free and relatively unregulated market

[@RealWheel1]

Yes, we wish the ισότητα

[@exocet8834]

Well who would have guessed that a Union that wants to centralize everything and leaves the say of the people at a minimum will get into trouble at some point?... Regionalization would be key imo

[@yogatonga7529]

I think a European Republic in Western Europe with France, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Italy (only 3 1/2 nations), maybe Iberia is possible.

[@RoiHeenok54]

Same taxation ? Just check Luxembourg, Malta, Ireland and Netherlands...they make a living of being low taxers.. Impossible project, made impossible by actual treaties . Total nonsense

[@infinitworld7106]

Isn't EU discussing about having a united army?

[@infinitworld7106]

Son of Liberty a united army for EU will basically mean a third superpower in the world right now. China, US, and EU. Maybe with Russia also included

[@sharann3482]

InfinitWorld Yh it’s for raising efficiency and lowering costs and it is VERY important. Just a comparison other major superpowers like the US Russia China or India use only 1-3 weapon systems (3 systems are very rare) for Air Force, infantry, navy and Artillery well while the whole EU uses up to 23 different weapon systems and now imagine them corporate in case of war. A massive ton of money will be wasted and is even wasted while doing nothing because keeping those systems needs a specialist for every system. But I would appreciate if the EU army would have strict rules like Germany or Japan. ONLY FOR DEFENSE.

[@fnym9rdsavsffdik9a25]

13:45 "and that is what we need to overcome i do think if Europe wants to have a chance on this continent" this is the most sane statement of the whole video this is a prime example of the danger of intellectual isolation in academia (at least in the social studies) where the academics become so disconnected that they lose the lower class sorry this woman is completely crazy, hi tedx could you please ask your partners to have a sanity check of the speakers as this is 16:10 minutes of pure unadulterated idiocy, it's like a fever dream after stopping with weed

[@axolot9097]

You can just say you disagree instead of being rude.

[@miguelrodrigues190]

we have a big barrier to become one united republic:27 different languages

[@theanti-person9113]

multilingual federations can exist

[@nothingtoseehere815]

I mean there is nations that have different languages and even the same language but shifting depending east to west north to south. And EU already have translators in the parliament. Language is not a issue now days

[@neptunianman]

i think it's quite nice, diversity

[@frankn2912]

The most overrated person who pretend to have knowledge in european politics.

[@h.e.pennypacker6620]

Dangerous woman

[@bernardmcavoy1864]

At it again , Adolf?

[@ambruskiss4492]

To all of you who worry that I want to create a European superstate: don't worry! What I want is a GLOBAL superstate.

[@sharann3482]

ambrus kiss That will happen in 50-100 Years or maybe 200

[@rosoro465]

Well that could start from the European Republic

[@spennie3607]

Arsedrivel

[@AlbinosQerimi]

Nice try Germany.

[@sharann3482]

Albinos Qerimi the government of Germany would actually loose power but the European people including the German people would see an increase of power in European Republic of Regions.

[@exocet8834]

Sharann Well I am not so sure about that, just look at the Republic of Germany atm. Many people within the population are against the further influx of migrants for example, yet the German State absolutely doesnt care about their opinions and wants to keep the borders open. Just imagine what could happen if all that would be decided by only one Senate. It really depends on how that Republic would work I guess.

[@sharann3482]

Exocet 8 first of all thats the democratic deficit of the german republic, the left parties from germany are already for decades fighting for more power for the citizens and since a few years a more right party has joined, but they cant find common ground. And secondly the vast majority is still for open boarders here in germany wich were introduced with the schengen area. Also the migration influx weren't that high but we weren't prepared even though the party "Die Linke" has addressed it in the parliament and warned the other parties, so that they pay the 3 billion$ the UNHCR needed to keep the refugees. But we partialliy managed it finally without solving the main causes of why they leave their country. But we somehow managed it crime rate is shrinking again after it raised due to refugees and the amount of refugees or migrants has reduced too. But yh i agree its about how to designe the european reoublik. The regions could be governed like swiss while the governement of the republic would be a parlamantarian one the head of the state can also be designed as the swiss system.

[@exocet8834]

Sharan I wasnt talking about the Schengen area but about the migrant influx and I highly doubt the majority of the German people want more of it. The Left Party has been around 10% for years and as far as I know a lot of their members even advocate the fascistic "no Nations, no Borders" concept. The Right party only came to existence and got stronger because of the actions of the EU and the German ruling parties, be it about the Euro or the Migration crisis. Probably the ideal concept would be a Regionalization within a common european area with free trade and free movement, the rest should be left to be decided by the Regional governments.

[@IkBenDigio]

The integration of the refugees has been handled terrible. The current amount would be fine if there was an actual plan and they weren't such a majority in men. There a no job programs so they will get bored and guess what happens when uneducated people get bored..

[@pukimano]

Making an already undemocratic supranational even more oprssive. No thanks.

[@BalianofTheTube]

künjáng dzse did you even watch the video?

[@rosoro465]

I would love to live in the European Republic, and not only me, it seems.

[@patriciasalvatore2394]

This woman is leaving out the immense problems caused by the migrant people who have been brought into Europe. Her talk means nothing.

[@frondeskias]

migration is nothing new. Its been happening for centuries. If you haven't learnt anything from her talk, then maybe its a matter of putting aside your prejudices and actually listening to what she says ... just a though :)

[@patriciasalvatore2394]

Jamez Frondeskias I would have agreed with you in theory; it's fine that populations change over time, but I think the current situation has some deliberate influence to bring it about that makes it objectionable.

[@frondeskias]

how so? If you look at any European country, there has always been migration - whether in trickles or in big movements. We should not be afraid of migration but rather embrace it. Whether its Portugese moving to Estonia, or Brits to Greece.

[@frondeskias]

and as long as we stick to "my nation, your nation" mentality, we wont address the issues. If you look at the refugee influx of the last few years - they are bottlenecked in Greece and Italy. Why? Because there is no European agreement on how to handle it and how to distribute the refugees. So the two countries that can least afford to have the refugees are struggling because of the "nation" mentality of individual EU countries

[@patriciasalvatore2394]

Jamez Frondeskias When immigration happens on an overwhelming scale as is happening now there are reasons to object to it. When the immigrant population openly speaks about how they intend to dominate the host country that's a valid reason to oppose allowing in more from that culture. Immigration on a large scale is what's happening now and perhaps by some deliberate intentions. If you want to say whatever happens, it will all settle down eventually, I understand that idea, but given the probability that in this situation there's going to be much suffering first, I can't accept that. No country should be forced to accept such a probability.