Innsbruck 2002

EAPC • Europe Meeting • May 1 to 4, 2002 • Innsbruck /Austria

Speeches

Horst Becker
Erhard Busek
Michael Carmichael
Ana Fernandes
Peter Frei
Helmut Mader
Dominik Meier
Joe Napolitan
Fritz Plasser
Guido Schommer
Carlo Willeit

Helmut Mader

The special construction and the uniqueness of the Europa-Region
Tyrol-Southern Tyrol-Trentino

The Europe of tomorrow needs to have a different face than today. The European Union must not be a fortress of the rich which makes the countries of the former Eastern Europe fail to enter but a project of peace and wealth for the whole continent. Europe is a varied continent and the Union can only profit from this variety.
This confronts us with the important task of finding a new strategic orienteering for Tyrol within this new Europe.
80 years after Tyrol gets the opportunity of becoming again what it has been once: a country reaching from the lake Garda to the mountain Karwendel. Not that South and Welsch Tyrol are becoming part of Austria or Northern and Eastern Tyrol become a part of Italy. This would be yesterday´s stereotyped thinking. Today it means: Europe without borders, common currency, an unique political system without nation-state patronage.