Witold Gadomski on migration as Europe's driving force

Journalist Witold Gadomski laments European provincialism and pleads for more flexibility in the EU. "One of the EU's fundamental principles is the freedom that includes the right to live and work in another country. Why don't more Europeans take advantage of this? The reason is the diversity of languages and cultures, the feeling of estrangement, and the relative difficulty of climbing the economic ladder in another country. The EU is still a conglomerate of 27 states whose governments pursue policies aimed at satisfying their own particular interests. Political parties take advantage of nationalistic resentments. The largest European countries – France and Germany – fail to see that they can learn something new from their smaller and poorer neighbours. True integration of the EU will only happen when a great movement of European people begins – much greater than today's economic migration from Central Europe."

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