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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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hallo
Det blir aldrig så bra som man hoppas, men inte heller så illa som man kan befara
By 2040, we have solved the current energy crisis, and our fossil dependence is broken. Our natural resources are managed sustainably. The population growth in the world has stopped, and the population is decreasing in the world. Life expectancy is increasing globally. I would like the UN to have a leading role in the world, and to be able to put power according to what it decides. Now you are too toothless in conflicts. Given the current world situation, I hope that Russia no longer poses any threat to anyone. That Ukraine has entered the EU and NATO, and that the inhabitants of the US choose leaders who behave like leaders and nothing else. If you want to be a world leader, you have to be one for the whole world and nothing else. But I probably won't be there, so I'll see how it goes.
hallo
Maailma hengittää taas!
2040 is a turning point in world history. We have been working together for 20 years. As a result of these efforts, re-freezing has been observed in polar glaciers. The Gulf Stream continues to flow and keeps the Nordic climate tolerable. The amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide has decreased. Thank you for making the Brazilian and Asian rainforests grow and function as the lungs of the world. Invasive alien species spread to new areas are returning to their original habitats. The number of wildfires in previous years has decreased and the number of tropical hurricanes has been lower than in previous years. All this, now and in the years to come, has been made possible by the collective effort of the peoples of the world for a common world. A world that is only on loan. The senseless frenzy of increasing the production of all products has ceased and produces only the blood that the sustainable production capacity of the Earth makes possible. Recycling is well underway on continents and in countries where recycling has not taken place in the past. The world's seas, rivers and waterways have recovered from the enormous plastic waste that has been sown in them, thanks to advanced technology and awareness for the good of our waterways.
hallo
Bez przyszłości
It's 2040 and another war has begun. Russia rebuilt after the victory with Ukraine invaded other countries, quickly moving armored forces reached Portugal. Poland and Germany were turned to ashes and more than 100 million people died as a result of the impact of atomic bombs. England has surrendered and is occupied by the United States. In the world, China annexed all of Asia and destroyed the entire population of Taiwan. Famine and disease are spreading, the burnt earth does not yield any crops. The future of the earth no longer exists.
hallo
wonen in een ideale wereld !!
I want the future there peacefully, without armed conflicts , tolerance and a distribution of taxes and taxes so that both the poor and the rich pay a fair contribution , also that everyone would be treated in the same way and politicians finally stop promising their friends a better world , at the expense of the less fortunate , in short a safe and well-living world for everyone on this globe !
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