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Will it now take a global government to solve what were once considered national or regional issues yet now affect us all? Michelle Twohig


Answer

Roland Berger: Ideally a global government would be the right institution to find solutions for worldwide problems, i.e. worldwide deseases spreading all over the world, such as AIDS and terrorism which threaten the whole world, or to prevent wars and to balance the interests worldwide. On the other hand, people need their home, they need self-determination, their circumstances in their own culture group, and so in this respect we won’t have a global government so easily. What would be reasonable to do is to create regional unions, like the European Union, which I like to take as an example, of which the members arrange things within their culture area and have committed themselves to a kind of coexistence. Who solve these very cross-border problems through collective voting. Analogue unions could be possible all around the world, in the regions of Asia, of America or South America, and in fact not only in economic sense, but also in all spheres of life, cultural, military, defence, scientific. And I think this kind of union is, again, nothing but a globalisation of governmental power. By means of a dialog or a multiple dialog, a “multilog” so to say, this kind of a union would try to acquire a function of a supposed worldwide government.