European Student Think Tank

More respons­ib­il­ity and less social secur­ity. That’s what Brit­ish Prime Min­is­ter David Cameron wants for ‘his’ Great-Britain. Cameron thinks his mis­sion, the imple­ment­a­tion of the Big Soci­ety, is a mat­ter of policy but in my opin­ion rad­ical changes demand some­thing more. Imple­ment­ing ones party pro­gram isn’t enough. In this blog I will explain why a Big Soci­ety in Europe is a bad idea. Though the retreat of the state is inev­it­able, the intro­duc­tion of a Big Soci­ety would do more harm than good.

With Khadafi’s would-be mas­sacre loom­ing in Benghazi, Europe has proven that it is still will­ing to take on a mes­si­anic role to fight for free­dom. The enthu­si­asm that David Cameron and Nic­olas Sarkozy have shown to pro­tect human life with all means neces­sary deserves the deep­est respect and stands in stark con­trast to Germany’s inex­cus­able cow­ardice. Libya deserves European mil­it­ary sup­port in escap­ing from the yoke of a mad­man that has oppressed its people for generations.

Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism is dead. At least, accord­ing to many prom­in­ent EU-leaders. It’s a shame though, that they didn’t present a feas­ible altern­at­ive to the mul­ti­cul­tural soci­ety. Should we say our per­man­ent farewells to the mul­ti­cul­tural ideal, or should we instead try to reform it, giv­ing it a chance to sur­vive? I’ll try to answer that ques­tion below.