Daniel Couvreur on the struggle for change in the 21st century

Mankind needs new, revolutionary ideas to master the challenges of the 21st century, Daniel Couvreur writes in the daily Le Soir: "In the year 2009, 220 years after the French Revolution, the world has lost the crystal ball of social, political, economic and philosophical certainties. Will we be able to achieve a better distribution of the world's riches, reconcile people with their leaders and put scientific advances at the service of sustainable development? In 1789 the sans-culottes made a clean sweep of the dogmas and existing institutions to - not without exaggeration - build a freer, fairer and more balanced society. Equipped with a wild chasteness of spirit they wrote new laws under time pressure. … All for the sake of giving mankind a new creative vigour. Mankind and its planet are hungry for a radical change in mentality and behaviour. The future of the world belongs to us provided we carry through our intellectual revolution before it's too late."

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