Globalização

Tony Blair recebe os líderes europeus para uma cimeira sobre com deve a UE encarar a globalização. Via Bloomberg:

The question: How is the region to face the challenges posed by globalization?
The answers are likely to be all wrong: more intervention, subsidies, and shallow sloganeering.
In reality, Europeans are pretty good at globalization. They just need their governments to get out of the way and let them get on with it.
(...)Their governments, and the EU in particular, keep portraying it as a threat. The truth is that it is an opportunity.
Globalization is seen as a process in which jobs and investment are driven toward emerging, low-cost economies, destroying western European employment and welfare systems.
Yet globalization isn't to blame. It is high costs, taxes and excessive regulation.
(...)The solution most likely to emerge from Hampton Court is more intervention.

Agora, leia-se este artigo no Guardian ("Liberal v social EU: the false dichotomy") e tente-se perceber até que ponto os países da UE e os seus líderes - um reflexo das escolhas de cada país - conseguirão encarar uma maior liberalização económica e social como necessárias para colher os benefícios da globalização.