{"id":8501,"date":"2017-03-02T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:47:33","slug":"the-future-of-europe-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=8501","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Europe &#8211; what\u2019s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The European Commission presented on 1st March its <a href=\"europa.eu\/rapid\/attachment\/IP-17-385\/en\/White%20Paper%20on%20the%20future%20of%20Europe.pdf\">White Paper<\/a> on the future of Europe, which provides reflections and scenarios on how the EU27 could evolve by 2025, from the impact of new technologies on society and jobs, to globalisation, security and the rise of populism. The document presents the choice we face, through five scenarios covering a wide range of possibilities, being the starting point for each of them that the 27 Member States move forward together as a Union:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Scenario 1: Carrying On<\/strong> &#8211; The EU27 focuses on implementing, upgrading and delivering its positive reform agenda in the spirit of the Commission&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/publications\/president-junckers-political-guidelines_en\">New Start for Europe<\/a> from 2014 and of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2016\/09\/16-bratislava-declaration-and-roadmap\/\">Bratislava Declaration<\/a> agreed by all 27 Member States in 2016. Those priorities are regularly updated, problems are tackled as they arise and new legislation is rolled out accordingly.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Scenario 2: Nothing but the Single Market <\/strong>\u2013 The EU27 is gradually re-centered on the single market as the 27 Member States are not able to find common ground on an increasing number of policy areas, which could mean that crossing borders for business or tourism becomes difficult due to regular checks, and finding a job abroad is harder, and those falling ill abroad face expensive medical bills.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Scenario 3: Those Who Want More Do More<\/strong> \u2013 The EU27 proceeds as today but allows willing Member States to do more together in specific areas such as defense, internal security or social matters.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Scenario 4: Doing Less More Efficiently<\/strong> &#8211; The EU27 focuses on delivering more and faster in selected policy areas, while doing less where it is perceived not to have an added value.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Scenario 5: Doing Much More Together<\/strong> \u2013 Member States decide to share more power, resources and decision-making across the board. As a result, cooperation between all Member States goes further than ever before in all domains. Similarly, the euro area is strengthened with the clear understanding that whatever is beneficial for countries sharing the common currency is also beneficial for all. Decisions are agreed faster at European level and are rapidly enforced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To encourage the debate on the future of the EU27 Union, the European Commission, together with the European Parliament and interested Member States, will host a series of &#8216;Future of Europe Debates&#8217; across Europe&#8217;s cities and regions, and will come up with a series of reflection papers that will offer different ideas, proposals, options or scenarios for Europe by 2025 without presenting definitive decisions at this stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cAs we mark the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, it is time for a united Europe of 27 to shape a vision for its future. It&#8217;s time for leadership, unity and common resolve. The Commission&#8217;s White Paper presents a series of different paths this united EU at 27 could choose to follow. It is the start of the process, not the end.\u201d, Jean-Claude Juncker<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From a nursing perspective, it is crucial to understand that even if the Member States have an extensive freedom in organising their future, namely as regards health and social care systems, it is key that national and European policy-makers acknowledge the importance of investing in health, with a more efficient health and social care funding allocation, better working conditions for the nursing workforce, especially frontline, building on existing integrated care ecosystems throughout the EU. We have tools and the champions in the fields to make change happen. The EU27 should take all this into account when planning their health and social care policies as this is the way that they will achieve the objectives that were set out on a European level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 25 March, Heads of State or Government will come together in Rome to mark the 60<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome, which set the foundations for the European Union we know today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission presented on 1st March its White Paper&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-othernews"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11248,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=11248","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":0},"title":"Europe Day 2019 &#8211; Creating a protective, competitive, fair, sustainable and influential Europe!","author":"efn efn","date":"May 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"European citizens often feel that the work of the EU and its Institutions is far from their reality and needs, namely because the world we are living in is fast-paced and changing daily. Politicians in Brussels seem to have started to grasp the complexity of this reality, and the European\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10967,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=10967","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":1},"title":"Towards a sustainable Europe by 2030","author":"efn efn","date":"February 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of the debate on the future of Europe, launched with the Commission's White Paper of 1 March 2017, the Commission has now published a Reflection Paper on a Sustainable Europe by 2030. Announced as a follow-up to President Juncker's 2017 State of the Union Address, this Reflection Paper\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14954,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=14954","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":2},"title":"Conference on the Future of Europe \u2013 The future is in your hands!","author":"efn efn","date":"June 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Conference on the Future of Europe has now come to an end. After one year of deliberations, debates and discussions between citizens, regional, national and European politicians, EU institutions,\u00a0organised civil society and social partners a common trajectory for the future of the European Union has been reached. The Conference\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EFN.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EFN.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EFN.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EFN.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EFN.png?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14762,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=14762","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":3},"title":"Conference on the Future of Europe","author":"efn efn","date":"January 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Conference on the Future of Europe\u00a0is a great opportunity for European citizens to discuss Europe\u2019s challenges and priorities. This Conference allows people to contribute in the shaping of the future of Europe. EFN is part of these discussions. The European Conference on the future of Europe,\u00a0held online last November, focused\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9299,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=9299","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":4},"title":"New EU Presidency of the Council of the EU","author":"efn efn","date":"January 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The 1st January 2018, marked the beginning of a new year, but also of a new EU presidency of the Council of the EU, running until 30 June 2018. After 10 years of its accession to the EU, Bulgaria took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13349,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=13349","url_meta":{"origin":8501,"position":5},"title":"Europe Day 2021 &#8211; Creating A New Future for Europe!","author":"efn efn","date":"May 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated to all the EU citizens the added value of the nursing workforce to the European healthcare ecosystems \u2013 working at the frontline of care, 24\/7, at the bedside with the patient, and provided the evidence that nurses\u2019 competencies are central to the well-functioning of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Latest News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Latest News","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}