Hello, welcome at this new vlog of Belicons.
Nice that you are watching.
This week my blog and vlog are about dissatisfaction in the European Union.
It strikes me that there are two opposing views on the European Union.
Some people are very pleased with it.
They claim that there is peace for decades now because of it.
And since countries that also want to join the union need to reform before they can become
a member too, it brings a better state of justice in other countries too.
And thus it makes other countries more democratic too.
Other people aren't happy with the European Union at all.
They see all the rules that the union imposes on us without us having any influence on that.
They see that some countries have to pay a lot of money and others just receive a lot of money.
So according to them the European Union is actually very undemocratic.
This has made me think about how to bring these two sides together.
For the European Union will be there for quite some time but it isn't good when many people
are unhappy with it.
For this reason I think it's important to find a way to bridge the gap between proponents
and opponents of the European Union.
And I think that this will become possible when the proponents realize that they shouldn't
stay stagnant with the success that they have until now.
For indeed, it is now very different than about 150 years ago when European countries
wanted to expand their nations and could only for that reason only start a war.
In that era people had to fight to get an own governments.
Now we all live free countries and we don't have to worry that another country suddenly attacks us.
So the European Union indeed is a good initiative.
But even when something is successful at the start, it doesn't mean that it stays that way.
And the proponents need to realize that too.
The European Union isn't perfect.
The conflicts in Eastern-Ukraine and The Crimea came into existence because Ukraine and the
European Union became too close according to Putin.
So the European Union means peace within the union itself, but that doesn't mean that
the European Union cannot be a part of another war or cause another war.
It is also well-known that Greece became a part of the euro zone far too soon and because
of that they got into major problems that are still not resolved.
And also the Brexit referendum shows that the proponents shouldn't be too confident
about the future of this union.
This makes me think about the warehouse chain V&D, or Vroom en Dreesman.
This large warehouse chain got bankrupt a year ago and that was a big surprise to many.
But before the bankruptcy was final, many people already said that they didn't know
why they would buy something at these stores specifically.
But a long time ago this was very different.
My grandmother sometimes tells me the story about when she worked at a fashion house at
the end of the 1940s.
It wasn't going very well with the store and she saw that the V&D had sales that attracted
many customers in that way.
She told this to her boss and he let her create a table with sales too.
And that worked!
At that time the V&D was very progressive and an example to her.
I can imagine that former managers of the V&D stayed stagnant with the success they
had and forgot to stay progressive.
So being successful is a good thing, but being successful once doesn't mean that one will
stay successful.
One should always be alert not to become stagnant.
And that also counts for the European Union.
Even when it is a good thing in many ways, the people are getting more and more dissatisfied
and the European committee should do something about that before there will be many other
referenda in countries that also want to leave the European Union.
If proponents are going to realize this then there will be room to start to listen to one
and another and to make the European Union really democratic and transparent.
Then the inhabitants can become proud again to live in the European Union and really feel
that it adds to their lives.
But at the same time it is important that opponents of the European Union are open to
notice that the union is improving.
Sometimes people are so much against something that they are just angry and interpret everything
that happens negatively.
In that case the proponents can improve many things, but in the end it wouldn't help
when the opponents aren't open to see that things are improving.
And this brings me, just as in my blog, to the importance of taking into account both
facts and feelings.
The proponents have very positive feelings when they think about the European Union.
They believe so strongly in this project that they don't see the facts that there is a
lot of dissatisfaction and that not everything is working out perfectly.
But the opponents are so much against the union that they stay stagnant in their negative
feelings and don't see the positive sides of the European Union and won't notice any improvements.
So if we want to make a success out of the European Union and make the inhabitants satisfied
civilians, then proponents and opponents should first take both facts and feelings seriously.
These are my ideas.
Let me know what you think, on Belicons or on YouTube.
And don't forget to mention your arguments of course.
I'm really curious and I'll see you next week.
Bye!
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