Blessings and Victims of Globalization: Economic and social development, relative impoverishment, unemployment, economic crises, right-wing and left-wing radicalism, religious wars, refugee flows and the responsibility of Europe

The fact that we must deal with the problems of the whole world today is a result of globaliza-tion. We must be aware of the fact that globalization involves a globalization of our European spirit, our way of life, our technology, including the atomic bomb, our economy and society, and so we are responsible for what is happening worldwide. When discussing Europeanism, it must not be overlooked that this issue is divided into a western and an eastern component, both of which have been global...