A Self-Sufficient Beacon

Anonymous

March 19, 2025

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On the last day of Ukraine's first term as president of the Council of the EU, it is important to remember how far we have all come on renewable energy.

Spurred by the challenges of the 2020s to divest of suppliers that pollute both our world and our society, it is an enduring achievement to witness a now self-sufficient European Union.

Interconnections stitch all of our nations together, beaming nuclear energy from France, Germany, and Italy to the peripheries, from where, in turn, renewables like wind and tidal pour back to the mainland.

Partnership with Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco have opened the Northern Sahara as a solar powerhouse. There is growing interest amongst all countries that fringe that vast desert to participate in the scheme, too. It not only provides a wealth of clean reliable electricity to both the providing nations and their investing partners north of the Mediterranean, but also has served to boost the stability of both sets of countries, offering a lifeline away from petro-destabilisers so intent on harvesting profit that they would sacrifice climate and society both to swell their coffers.

This renewable boom is enabled by the power of the EU's Eastern flank, which has fortified the border with Russia to become an impregnable signal of the sole Beacon of Democracy's will to not just survive, but to thrive.

As a threadbare Moscow struggles to grasp the collapse in oil and gas revenue, greenshoots are emerging where ordinary people mobilise to cast off the old shackles and guide Russia into the common prosperity we have painstakingly crafted.

Of course, for the Russian Federation all roads to EU membership lead through Kyiv, whose mineral wealth has propelled a war ravaged nation to peace and success at breakneck pace. This point was well made by ex-president Zelensky, whose speech at the closing ceremony of Ukraine's presidency received a ten minute standing ovation.

"The hand of friendship will always be extended," he said, "but unless Russia makes full amends for the horrors wrought by its recently deceased president, trust will remain beyond our power to give."

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jac.mar@wanadoo.fr

Utopia is important because it allows us to hope ... Let's imagine! it's spring and the small flowers, violets, pikelets, blueberries, worries..., decorate our gardens without pesticides, without fertilizer because the soil, well worked for years no longer needs all these artificial aids. And children, teenagers run into this garden. They are at peace, they are good because their parents have instilled in them the essential rules of life in society. And the school has trained them by teaching them, not, ready-made formulas that it is enough to know by heart, no, by giving them the opportunity to train in everyday life with the help of the oldest who share their knowledge. And on their plates, at meals, they eat vegetables grown near their homes by responsible farmers. No more ready-made dishes bought in the super markets, almost all of which have disappeared or, at the very least, have changed the way they sell... Utopia!!

Autonom fahren

I would love to be able to drive autonomously. This would be especially important for older people from the country, as there are often no shops and doctors there anymore. So you can participate in life even with physical or mental limitations. In addition, the traffic is unraveling, there are fewer traffic jams, the traffic is more fluid and there are fewer accidents.

petrajeske@yahoo.de

I want a united Europe, not wars or wars. The gap between rich and poor should be very close. There would have to be enough living space, whether for rent or property. Politicians should not only look four years into the future and block everything beforehand. More attention should be paid to the environment, renewable energies, stable prices. Enough doctors and hospitals.

lennynka01@gmail.com

Self-sufficiency. national self-sufficiency in electricity production (preferably from renewable sources), crop cultivation and food production. Efficient and environmentally friendly management of arable land and water. Reducing livestock production and increasing plant production without pesticides and chemicals that damage groundwater and drinking water. Equal wage levels across sectors across Europe. The same salary for teachers in Germany as in the Czech Republic. The same pay for workers on the line in a car parts factory in France as in Slovakia. The same subsidies from the common European treasury for farmers who grow safe crops in Austria as in Poland. Stop subsidizing farmers for not sowing and harvesting crops, but just cutting grass in otherwise fertile fields. Self-sufficiency of households - the production of own electricity, the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, the breeding of animals for meat, eggs, milk, wool and the like. Exchange and sale of raw materials and products between neighbors on markets, between regions at larger exhibitions and between countries using import and export companies. To make us all healthier, happier and live in abundance and in harmony with nature.

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