This presentation was pretty interesting but it was even more the final activity about the european countries. Topics such as: The changing contours of European space, the Creation of “communities”: EU Diversity, Unity and Conflict and the European Management Style are studied.
1. What did I learn?
The space in Europe has been affected by three main phenomens, its historical war background, the several existent cultures, and the attemps for an integration; the result os the lattest is the European union. For the community building is was needed to keep in mind features as: diversity, interest and exixtent conflicts.
According to the Unesco the appropriate definition of diversity: “Cultural diversity refers to the manifold ways in which the cultures of groups and societies find expression.”
The EU unity, is according to the definition given by Wikepedia: “The EU is a political and economic comm-unity of twenty-seven member states European”. (Wikipedia;2008). This unity has got as objective the free movement of goods, services, people and other production factors. Nevertheless, it is very difficult to accomplish this idea as a completed one, so process adaptation and reduction of important gaps in the european reality is needed.
About the political issues, it is divided into two categories: European integration and enlargement, which each of the present point in favor and against. In addition, the community building has been affected by others divisive matters: racism, xenofobia given by the constant migration factor, are the strongest one. Thus, the problem with community is that its assumptions may serve to exclude other people. But it is important to say that, there is an attemp to leave the individualism between leaders among countries in Europe.
At the present, Europe lives a conflict due to the multiculuralism. The most influent natios in Europe are against of the stablisment of a same space for people form different cultures.
Refering to the managerial style as an European one, it is said that regarding the differences such as religious, historical, political and other facts that conclude that there is not a solid European management style.
To sum up, in order to achieve a really community and an European managerial style, it is important to leave behind things that influence in a bad way the "forward steps" given so far.
2. Question: It is known that there is an obstacle called Turkey for the EU. What kind of obstacle is it?
3. Answer: Many people say that the problem has its roots in the cultural issue, especially in the religion one. Most of the population in turkey is musulms, so for countries as France and Holland it is terrible to allow islamic people to enter so freely to the rest of the european countries, and that is the point, the turkey´s entrance means to allow around 7o millions of poor people in the big nations, also it is said that , it would represent higher costs for the countries which give financial assistance to smaller ones . On the other hand, others who are in favor, say that turkey might be a strategic point for containing the islamic spread. Points in favor and against. It is pretty obvious that this controversy is going to last for long, while the obligations for Turkey as the Chipre issue are accomplished.
SOURCE:
- Europe´s presentation.
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