Donetsk Euroclub is happy to present a series of essays on the topic "Future of Europe" by former members of Euroclubs. Essays were submitted for a competition to participate in a Youth in Action exchange in Norway. Essays are presented as received.
Today Europe faces a set of serious problems that brought into discussion the subject of European decline. Scholars and politicians now talk more about the EU’s weaknesses and faults than about its role as a powerful actor in international arena. According to Prof. Kasaba from University of Washington, even Turkish public opinion on integration into the EU has shifted from 78% (2004) to 28% (2011). The wide range of economic, political, institutional, and social challenges hit European societies. These challenges include structural factors such as demographic decline, European reliance on Russia as main supplier of energy resources, and inconsistency between competitive economies (Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia) and weak economies (Spain, Italy, Greece). Other factors, which contribute to deepening European multiple crises, are institutional weakness at the EU level. The question of immigration, political leadership crisis, and enlargement remains the source of the headache for EU members, especially for its leading forces – France and Germany.











