TEDxInnsbruck - Verena Ringler - How can we solve Europe's crisis?
EU Strategy and Communications Advisor, Austria
Verena Ringler advises policymakers and stakeholders on the EU's future and the EU's role in the world. She does this with the conviction that this unique project of sovereignty pooling is perfectly placed to conceive 21st-century governance beyond the nation state. Verena worked for an EU-led diplomatic team in Kosovo (2006 - 09) and for Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, D.C. (2002 - 06).
Why do new things seem to happen everywhere—but not in the political life of the European Union? Why does the EU resemble a bureaucratic blackbox, and life outside of it a bustling paintbox? Why are ideas not brought to power? Far away from the decision-making world, Europeans show leadership, talent, and creativity. Every day, thousands of us leave their comfort zones, master complexity, and embrace the future: in orchestra music or organic agriculture, in protest movements and evening schools, in physics and psychology, in think tanks and in companies. To nurture our commonwealth and our social peace, to create a good future, we don't lack leadership—we rather lack a relationship: between the world of great ideas, and the world of great decisions.
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