Simply put, the experts need to stop treating Europe s citizens as if they were stupid.

Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

To insist on it, against the wishes of most European citizens, would smack of precisely the kind of undemocratic paternalism that has turned many Europeans against the EU already.

As a result, European citizens' elected representatives will be better able to scrutinize the work of the Commission.

But not all European citizens are practicing Christians. Many are not Christians at all.

Moreover, in 2006, 57 of European citizens declared themselves ready to move abroad for professional reasons.

June 20 Boxer Rebellion Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.

Globalization s rules should not force Americans or Europeans to consume goods that are produced in ways that most citizens in those countries find unacceptable.

In 1994, French and Belgian soldiers evacuate Europeans while Rwanda Hutus massacred hundreds thousands of Tutsis.

The current crisis has exposed the original lacunae and widening cracks in the compact between Europe s citizens and EU institutions, between Europe s north and south, and between its peoples and its elites.

Xenophobes, as well as leftist multi cultural ideologues, regarded these new Europeans as utterly different from the native born, albeit for different reasons.

As a result, roughly 400,000 European scholars currently reside in the US, and almost 60 of European citizens who received doctorates in US from 1998 to 2001 chose to remain there.

AMSTERDAM Most European citizens (for example, more than 60 in France and Germany) believe that Turkey should not become part of the European Union.

A key factor in the success of any EU Middle East initiative will be the millions of European citizens of North African origin, who have a political, cultural, and economic role to play.

Given Dutch and French voters rejection of the EU s constitutional treaty in 2005, and European citizens increasing frustration with the Union and its crisis management, the outcome would be highly uncertain.

Similarly, European citizens should have demanded that their governments refuse even to consider transferring private losses to them. But they failed to do so, and the transfer was effected soon after.

It is hard for Americans, whose world series are essentially domestic affairs, to understand the emotions engendered in European citizens when their nations compete for the European soccer championship every four years.

What has produced the populist backlash is the spectacle of political authorities devising technically complicated solutions that lack credibility. Simply put, the experts need to stop treating Europe s citizens as if they were stupid.

Establishing a banking union by 2013 will not give Europe a magic wand with which to wave away the economic crisis overnight but it is a major and crucial step to restoring the confidence of Europe s citizens, international partners, and investors.

Europe s Non European Europeans

But the real Europeans loved him for it.

It will have joint decision making authority in many more areas, including the budget. As a result, European citizens' elected representatives will be better able to scrutinize the work of the Commission.

Engaging citizens

Fine distinctions are made, for example, between the rights of citizens and non citizens.

Pessimistic Europeans are behind the curve.

But the same goes for the Europeans.

(Young European Lawyers Scholarship Scheme)

But few official pronouncements, let alone policies, are addressing Europe s deficit of trust and credibility. The current crisis has exposed the original lacunae and widening cracks in the compact between Europe s citizens and EU institutions, between Europe s north and south, and between its peoples and its elites.

Did that lack of cooperation affect their eligibility for assisted repatriation? He also wished to know whether the expulsion of non European citizens illegally residing in Italy applied to both victims of trafficking and traffickers. Mr.

Is it true that Europeans don't shower daily?

Most Europeans see in America a strong friend.

From 1880 to 1930, 4 million Europeans arrived.

That s what sent French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other high level European officials scurrying off to China last November and why many ordinary Europeans continue to think of the Chinese as not playing by the rules.

Above all, the EU needs political will and direction. Only Germany and France, acting together, can convey to Europe s citizens and to the world the sense that the EU is at long last waking up to today s global realities.

Because laws are for protection, not discrimination.

Sensible Europeans understand that.

European leaders seem to be moving in this direction.

British membership is important to many in Europe.

Europeans can supply this defect.

Europeans were unwilling to stand up to Serbian mass murderers.

Sarkozy bowed to his European critics and enjoyed a diplomatic triumph.

Basis The Citizens Revolution is based on the Five Axes of the Citizens' Revolution (Los 5 ejes de la Revolución Ciudadana).

It is up to European citizens and elites to avoid the worst.

But Europeans must learn the lessons of the recent past.

The US representatives were perplexed the Europeans were shocked.