europe's (torn?) identity - Projects - AEGEE Europe

instead of two hospitals, fire-stations, police stations, universities, bus-stations,
railway-stations, telephone-codes and areas, power-supplies, etc. Would
the harbors of Koper and Trieste share goods regarding better overall equipment
or would they compete? Will competitiveness of other EU nation-states hinder
Slovenia's citizens' progress?
Borders are out, capitalism is in!
Dr. Anton GOSAR
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Koper, University of Primorska
anton.gosar@guest.arnes.si
From the lecture....
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Mr. Gosar starts with music...whose identity is it?
There are existing and past (historical) identities.
Are we going to build new identities?
The sunny side of the Alps: Slovenia. Bavaria and Slovenia are identical in a way. They
identify themselves with the same music.
Europe of no borders already existed: it was the Europe of Royalties.
Dias and transparency used:
❖ Loyalty to the nation.
❖ Cross-border interactions: 55 Euroregions: they try to eliminate borders.
❖ Persistence of borders.
❖ Cooperation, competitiveness and specialization.
❖ Borders and 7 basic social functions.
❖ The blue banana.
❖ Regions are different in development (Slovenian Language).
❖ 10 candidate countries: some regions are more developed than others.
❖ The cross-border regions in Northern Europe.
❖ Overview of Euroregions.
❖ A cartoon: aren't we disappearing as a nation in a region?
❖ Transparency map of border between Trieste.
When the border disappears, we probably won't like the neighbor! We see the neighbor
as competitor.
The nation-state's identity would be demolished, new identities will be created in historical
or new regions. Either natural or human resources are unique in every region.
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