2040's EU: The true and welcoming land of opportunities

Anonymous

April 26, 2023

2040's EU: The true and welcoming land of opportunities

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I hope and expect that our empathy for those from afar will increase in the next 20 years, and the international mobility of vulnerable people will not be as difficult and exhausting as it is today.

On the one hand, I would like 2040 to be a year in which those who are forced to flee their homes due to human or climatic catastrophes do not face unnecessary obstacles in their flight, resulting from prejudice and discrimination. I close my eyes and I see reception centres which respect and promote human rights, politicians that do not trade with border control measures, administrations that protect vulnerable people, laws that do not curtail human rights under any pretext or justification, and judicial systems that do not deviate from such red lines.

In addition, I also hope that those who cannot develop their full potential in their home country will be able to access the facilities we have in Europe, either to bring that talent back home or to stay in the EU. At present, the legal pathways to access the EU territory are mainly focused on people with higher education, entrepreneurs or people with some purchasing power. However, I believe that the ideal is to open up more circular migration channels through which those who do not have much can have a better future. This is not only "in our interest" because it would reduce irregular immigration, but I believe it should be an obligation, as a significant world power.

In my vision of an ideal 2040, mobility should be open to all - not a headache for those who need to flee or a utopia for those who cannot afford it.

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By 2040, health care will have improved significantly. Most cancers and other life-threatening diseases and conditions will be much more treatable, not least because their detection will be much earlier. In fact, all citizens will not only receive a complete health check every year, but will also carry implants to measure crucial values - if their health demands it. AI systems read those values and immediately sound the alarm when warranted. Following breakthroughs with stem cell treatments, donor organs are widely available. Giant strides have also been made in the field of artificial body parts. Because rejuvenation programs replace old and diseased cells with new ones, more people are reaching old age - and in good health, too. By Global Action 2036, these health care breakthroughs have literally spread around the world. Finally.

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I want to live in a future where the damage caused by humanity on the planet is assessed and actually done about it. If we have to, we recycle the things we bought from our parents and grandparents and not the things that would be very damaging to the earth, like making soap instead of using shower gel, we pickle our own cabbage. Stricter rules for clothing brands, that they have to take back worn-out clothes, and how often they can release collections, e.g. 2 times a year. The other thing is stricter control of the policy. Unfortunately, my experience tells me that I am disappointed. I can't really trust the politicians of today. I cannot have any confidence in them. If they do anything, there should be sanctions. Because unfortunately the little man is now more regulated than a politician. Respect for women: a woman, if she has children, runs a household, serves her husband. What I have listed is not enough. But they understand things too. They know a lot. Women should also be paid similar salaries to our male counterparts, with fewer demeaning gestures towards us, just because they are the generally called weaker sex. Then I would feel at ease in 2040.

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Europe in the last 20 years has changed so much...the skies are blue again, a blue that the generations at the turn of the millennium had not seen for a long time. The air is clean, fresh, the fumes produced by factories are now a distant memory, the smog produced by means of transport no longer exists, and their noise has disappeared, replaced by the noises of a nature that has taken back the space to which it was entitled and which the industrialization of the last two centuries of the previous millennium had wrested from it, leaving it to suffer more and more under the weight of a growth of a humanity that thought only of itself, without considering how much the environment around it would suffer until it became hostile. In this new everyday life, humanity realized the mistakes it had made, began to live serenely again with respect for the planet, this realization led it and revise many other behaviors, conflicts decreased, listening to each other improved, and now different cultures have flourished again, improving each other...the world is now at peace.

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