Germany FINALLY reveals its Vision for Europe

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz outlined his vision for Europe in a speech in Prague last Monday. He went into great detail concerning EU reform, his “Strategy Made in Europe 2030” and European Defense Capabilities. This video will break down what reforms Germany is suggesting and how this could reshape the European Union in the decades to come.

Timestamps:
Key Point 1: 00:35
Key Point 2: 2:10
Key Point 3: 4:10
Key Point 4: 5:36
My Opinion: 6:07

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Key Resources
Source 1: Phoenix, Europapolitische Grundsatzrede von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz in Prag

Source 2: Euronews, Factbox-The EU's future according to Scholz

Source 3: Euronews, Olaf Scholz says EU must reform to cope with enlarging to 30-36 members

Source 4: european Council, Schengen Borders and Visa

[billdexhart]

The problem isn’t that the EU isn’t tech savvy. Most technology research is done in Europe already.
The problem is that the commercialisation of it is done by mostly American companies. And the profits of that development goes abroad.

[pittan]

Address the poor birth rates instead of people replacement via immigration. This is essential. Hopefully this will be a big topic soon in all EU countries and in the EU parliament.

[muhammaduddin]

The problem with EU is the lack of control on immigration.

[VedranPrema]

Also, it is very self-serving of Germany to ban single country vetoes since Germany has biggest population and a lot of influence on smaller countries.

[georgesdelatour]

The problem with majority voting is this. There are policies which can be good for the whole but bad for some of the parts. Take the cases of two countries which have chosen not to join the EU: Iceland and Norway.

If Iceland joined the EU, it would have to allow the fishermen of the other 27 countries to fish in its territorial waters. This would be both good for the EU as a whole and bad for Iceland. That’s the reason Iceland hasn’t joined the EU.

Norway is Europe’s only major energy exporter (apart from Russia). Norway understands that a common European energy policy would prioritise the interests of energy importers, not energy exporters. Norway would be an easily outvoted part of the European whole. Norwegians fear they'd get an energy policy which was good for the EU as a whole and bad for them.

The main reason Scholz favours majority voting is, he doesn’t expect Germany to be the country that gets outvoted. Ever. So there’s a kind of easy, unearned sanctimony to his position.

[familygash]

'Germany's vision for Europe'

"Ah sh**, here we go again."

[CIutchX]

I believe the only topic the EU should use and even must use a Veto is in discussions for new memberstates. While some might be critical like having all of Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania enter at the same time, since at least one of them is hated by at least another one of them, it is definitely important since this is the ground foundation of everything else.

[Teutathis]

I feel that most of the suggestions make sense but I also feel that the whole concept of asylum can no longer survive under their current conditions. Asylum in Europe should extend to european countries alone unless something extraordinary happens outside the continent. Europe cannot continue to be the wellfare office of the world at the detriment of its own people. The skyrocketing crime rates in Sweden and the continued drain on the social safetynet systems of Europe prove quite clearly that en massé migration is not sustainable in the long run especially as people who come here seem to have huge issues adapting and finding a job. I am all for skilled labour migration but we cannot continue to be selfless and allow people who lack the skillset required to be productive within the EU labour market to come. There has to be a quid pro quo for migration to work and currently there is none. The rise of the far right in Europe is a direct result to the left's utopic views on migration that is not grounded in reality. Let's not forget that migration is the single most important issue that resulted in Brexit and the loss of the UK.

[VatroCramer]

Sounds good but more realistic is a multi tiered EU.

[GCedderHasek]

I especially like that you not only collect information but really nicely give it to us without unnecessary talking.

[pauluk]

A lot of what Germany said makes a lot of sense and reforms are needed to the EU before it can expand, otherwise hardly anything will get done with so many countries and only one can block things from happening.

I'm also starting to come to the conclusion that if the EU can't get these reforms done at an EU level, they really should start focusing a lot more on the Euro Zone, they are more likely to want to make the EU work and more likely to want to do reforms than countries that are dragging their feet on the outside of the Euro, now that's not to say that all the none Euro Zone countries are like that, some are not which don't qualify to join the Euro but it's clear that others are not in the Euro because they don't want this integration and are mostly in the EU for economic benefits which is fine but not when it's holding the rest back.

So yeah, either the EU needs to go multi speed or a lot more focus on the Euro Zone is needed if they can't get these reforms done at an EU level, the last decade or two have been a waste with not much reforms and integration in the EU and Europeans can't afford to stay like that with a rising China and a US that's only getting bigger, the simple reality is, we either change or we're going to get pushed aside by the bigger powers and the only way we are going to compete with the US and China long term is if the EU countries integrate a lot more and work closer together, the alternative is that EU countries will get pushed aside on political, economic and social matters, that will weaken living standards and our voice around the world.

[Kaiser_von_Europa]

Where's turkey? They could used the Turkish army yo help them defend against the russians

[m--e]

2:53
No, we should not go even further into Car culture that is removing our acess to citys.
We should invest in Public Transport not Cars.

[levoGAMES]

What a terrible plan. It undermines the sovereignty of its member states and their ability to live according to their respective visions.
It cements the rule of a burocratic class that directly bypasses the people they seek to govern. The answer to a declining population is a privilege program for fruitful families.
The import of foreign labor, while indeed effective in the short term can only lead to division and loss of culture, thus destroying actual diversity. International cooperation
does not require this sort of absolute framework. As a german myself, I disapprove of this plan and proclaim that this vision is not shared by all of my fellow countrymen.

[mariadamedecoeur]

I will never ever let go of my own identity for some crazy f* seating beside the evil ones...

[AFFoC]

Love it, except for one thing: Why the fuck would you want to encourage immigration instead of having children. Call Hungary whatever names you want, but they seemingly succeeded in incentivesing starting a family, having kids. That's THE way if we want to actually protect our values and way of life. Inviting muslims is not the same as when Poles travel to Germany to work.
Samuel Paty rings any bells?

[DeptalJexus]

His vision is very interesting. He seems to want Europe to be its own superpower and be competitive to other superpowers.

[Jbounasser]

Nice insight into germanys vision for the EU. Would love to see some more content of how the EU arrived at its current iteration.

[marcfaur]

Schengen is not about being "passport free". EU is already that, so Romanians can travel everywhere in the EU only with their ID's. Schengen is about not having border controls.

[Ghxstvz]

Now I would say when Germany says it has a vision for Europe everyone would be nervous but he made some interesting ideas