Europe of Founding Fathers: Investment in the common future

<p>The European Union is currently the world’s largest association of countries, which have common<br>institutions, legal system, economic space and freedom of movement of persons, goods<br>and services. Various areas of the Union's activity have their own policies, and therefore it is said:<br>economic policy, consumer protection, environmental, energy and safety policy.<br>One of these policies is to build a common system of values. This area of Union's activity<br>awakens increasing opposition from many social groups in most EU countries. We can see a distinct<br>lack of universal acceptance for deconsecration processes, marginalisation of Christianity,<br>dismantling of the family and redefinition of the history, ranging the ancient Greece (philosophy)<br>and Rome (Roman law), which, after all, comprises about cultural and political identity of Europe.<br>All of this raises the question about the beginnings of European integration after the World<br>War II. Opportunity to ask such questions is the memory of the 50th anniversary of the Robert<br>Schuman's death. One of the so-called Founding Fathers died on 4th September, 1963. According<br>to the opinion of this politician and thinker at the same time, Europe has to include economic<br>solidarity, the modernization and improvement of production's quality and the fusion of markets.<br>Europe must take action for peace-building. In these assumptions, however, we notice lack of<br>suggestions about the need to build a new ideological basis for uniting Europe. Robert Schuman,<br>Alcide de Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer, though they were Catholics, they realized that the multiculturalism<br>of the world does not allow to implement one and right ideology. Unfortunately, such<br>thinking is a cause of social unrest and divisions in the international, domestic or even family field.<br>According to the Founding Fathers, the integration should include mainly the area of economics<br>and politics.<br>This publication is the result of the interdisciplinary debate over the question: what's left after<br>acquis of the Founding Fathers in the area of human rights, system of values, economics and politics?<br>How far social, economic and especially ideological changes are the continuation of thinking<br>of the Founding Fathers? The authors of the papers are lawyers, but also economists, political<br>scientists, theologians, historians and experts of European affairs. Participation in the publication<br>took the authors from Spain, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Italy.</p> <p>