German Federal Constitutional Court

If I was a European, I would be living in the library searching history books and bringing myself up to speed in understanding the EU system, from an outsiders view, maybe it would be a good thing for all Europe to be integrated, but until you visit and study EU integration, one has no idea what the Europeans have been through, since 1950 to the present moment.  I am really grateful to this program, because what I have learned and continue to learn about the EU as a whole, is not even yet written in books.  Listening the the Clerk of the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, was entertaining, educating and above all confusing.

Now let me put myself in the shoes of an ordinary EU citizen, who has not been to college, how is it possible for the citizens to understand all what has been evolving in the EU?  I am not surprised that the EP voter turnout is so low, I just came to the conclusion why it so after reading a speech article in my Federalism Class.    According to the then foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, during his speech at Humboldt University in Berlin, in May 2000, "the nation-states are realities that cannot simply be erased, and the more globalization and Europeanization create superstructures and anonymous actors far removed from the citizens, the more the people will cling to the nation-states that give them comfort and security." Perhaps the generation that will understand the EU evolution will be tomorrow's generation, yes, I am taking four EU classes, reading a lot of material and still I am getting confused every time we visit an institution like the German Federal Constitutional Court.

I want to believe the EU citizens are even more confused, because they have to live the EU dream.  Even though I would wish for the EU to be fully federated and fully integrated, one Europe for all, I would still wish for more schooling so that each and every citizen of the EU can understand the gigantic EU and its benefits to the citizens.  With freedom of movement, there are many challenges to be faced, e,g, security, justice and defense, yet we have not even talked about a possible political integration.