Europeans have no horizon of meaning

Catherine VEGLIO-BOILEAU Former director of the Redaction, Confrontations Europe [vc_btn title= »Download the article » style= »outline » color= »blue » align= »right » i_icon_fontawesome= »fa fa-file-pdf-o » add_icon= »true » link= »url:http%3A%2F%2Fprod.confrontations.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FRevue-107-Europeans-have-no-horizon-of-meaning-p37.pdf||target:%20_blank »] On the whole, confidence and hope – which have long been associated with progress – have been lacking in early twenty-first century Europe. There is a pervasive atmosphere of anxiety, which has fostered risk aversion and therefore weakened the EU’s development capacity. With the arrival of 2014 and the European elections, successive surveys have highlighted the general mood of pessimism among Europeans citizens. Their confidence in the future is dwindling, although the European Commission is doing its utmost to see the glass half full: “for the first time in years, there are more people who believe that the impact of the crisis on jobs has reached its peak than people who think that the worst is still to come”(1) . Does that mean Europeans are feeling more optimistic? When asked