For European Sovereignty and Geopolitics
Isle of San Simón (Redondela, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain), April 29th, 2011
The undersigned, together in San Simón, Isla del Pensamiento, from April 26th to 29th, 2011, and in the name of the institutions they represent,
DECLARE:
1. The world is undergoing a complex and uncertain geopolitical situation, provoked by the globalization of economy and the evolution of the multi-polar world that emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as a consequence of the geopolitics of fear, provoked as of September 11th, 2001
2. The previous situation has originated a profound crisis, especially economic, SET apart by changes of the world power’s relations, provoking an era of re-composition in global geopolitics
3. This crisis has also turned globalization into a multi-polar environment, granting Europe the opportunity of becoming a key actor of global geopolitics and geo-economics
4. Europe however, suffers from acute economic and political frailties which condition its performance in the global geopolitical world
5. In order to overcome its limitations, Europe must reach a new consensus (regarding territory, villages and culture), forge a geopolitical vision, invent a new form of non-dominant sovereignty and boost its security systems, for which prevention and anticipation, and consequently, intelligence, is vital
6. Its priorities must be:
i. protect its model of society, its cultural and democratic values, its identity, villages and territories
ii. overcome its technological dependence, particularly in the TIC fields, of the new forms of energy generation and NBIC convergence, as well as in the fields of Space, Security and Defense, both internal and international
iii. evaluate the necessary budgets for the development of sovereignty technologies (in a time frame of 10 to 15 years) and determine what public investment is to be carried out
iv. anticipate the vast demographic, environmental and geopolitical challenges, where intelligence is a fundamental factor
v. promote the public-private cooperation
vi. improve training and education as issue of social change
vii. generalize the common use of 4 languages in the European community (mother tongue, Latin, Germanic and Slavic based) and promote intelligent automatic translation technologies
viii. generate, through training and education, true leaders that can be a reference for our society
AGREE:
1. Create the European Network of Geopolitical Reflection, with the objective of contributing to Europe’s position in the new context of world geopolitics
2. This European Network of Geopolitical Reflection will work on a temporary scope of 10 years and its mission will be to draw up proposals and documents of critical analysis with a spirit of constructive collaboration of companies and institutions. These documents will be distributed throughout Internet and/or traditional means through the implicated institutions and will likewise be delivered to an ample list of political, corporate and parliamentary leaders, both national and European
3. This Network will be open to the participation of other institutions and experts, natives of other European countries (including Russia), Mediterranean Africa and Latin America, who are willing to contribute ideas to the geopolitical reflection in a global context
4. This Network, aside from developing its activities through Internet without interruption, mainly establishes Isla del Pensamiento as its permanent headquarters
5. This Network will meet again in Isla del Pensamiento in the year 2012, with the participation of experts and institutions of other European countries, aside from France and Spain
Signatories (in alphabetical order):
Jean Paul Baquiast, President of the Automates Intelligents Association
Fernando Davara Rodríguez, President of the Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales (SEI)
Jean-Claude Empereur, Delegate Vice President of thePan-European Union in France
Eduardo Martínez, Editor ofTendencias21
Eduardo Olier, PresidentofInstituto Choiseul España
Xulio Ríos, Director of Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (IGADI)
Fernando Velasco, Director of the Cátedra Servicios de Inteligencia y Sistemas Democráticos
Isle of San Simón (Redondela, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain), April 29th, 2011
The undersigned, together in San Simón, Isla del Pensamiento, from April 26th to 29th, 2011, and in the name of the institutions they represent,
DECLARE:
1. The world is undergoing a complex and uncertain geopolitical situation, provoked by the globalization of economy and the evolution of the multi-polar world that emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as a consequence of the geopolitics of fear, provoked as of September 11th, 2001
2. The previous situation has originated a profound crisis, especially economic, SET apart by changes of the world power’s relations, provoking an era of re-composition in global geopolitics
3. This crisis has also turned globalization into a multi-polar environment, granting Europe the opportunity of becoming a key actor of global geopolitics and geo-economics
4. Europe however, suffers from acute economic and political frailties which condition its performance in the global geopolitical world
5. In order to overcome its limitations, Europe must reach a new consensus (regarding territory, villages and culture), forge a geopolitical vision, invent a new form of non-dominant sovereignty and boost its security systems, for which prevention and anticipation, and consequently, intelligence, is vital
6. Its priorities must be:
i. protect its model of society, its cultural and democratic values, its identity, villages and territories
ii. overcome its technological dependence, particularly in the TIC fields, of the new forms of energy generation and NBIC convergence, as well as in the fields of Space, Security and Defense, both internal and international
iii. evaluate the necessary budgets for the development of sovereignty technologies (in a time frame of 10 to 15 years) and determine what public investment is to be carried out
iv. anticipate the vast demographic, environmental and geopolitical challenges, where intelligence is a fundamental factor
v. promote the public-private cooperation
vi. improve training and education as issue of social change
vii. generalize the common use of 4 languages in the European community (mother tongue, Latin, Germanic and Slavic based) and promote intelligent automatic translation technologies
viii. generate, through training and education, true leaders that can be a reference for our society
AGREE:
1. Create the European Network of Geopolitical Reflection, with the objective of contributing to Europe’s position in the new context of world geopolitics
2. This European Network of Geopolitical Reflection will work on a temporary scope of 10 years and its mission will be to draw up proposals and documents of critical analysis with a spirit of constructive collaboration of companies and institutions. These documents will be distributed throughout Internet and/or traditional means through the implicated institutions and will likewise be delivered to an ample list of political, corporate and parliamentary leaders, both national and European
3. This Network will be open to the participation of other institutions and experts, natives of other European countries (including Russia), Mediterranean Africa and Latin America, who are willing to contribute ideas to the geopolitical reflection in a global context
4. This Network, aside from developing its activities through Internet without interruption, mainly establishes Isla del Pensamiento as its permanent headquarters
5. This Network will meet again in Isla del Pensamiento in the year 2012, with the participation of experts and institutions of other European countries, aside from France and Spain
Signatories (in alphabetical order):
Jean Paul Baquiast, President of the Automates Intelligents Association
Fernando Davara Rodríguez, President of the Sociedad de Estudios Internacionales (SEI)
Jean-Claude Empereur, Delegate Vice President of thePan-European Union in France
Eduardo Martínez, Editor ofTendencias21
Eduardo Olier, PresidentofInstituto Choiseul España
Xulio Ríos, Director of Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (IGADI)
Fernando Velasco, Director of the Cátedra Servicios de Inteligencia y Sistemas Democráticos
