He stigmatized “an ideology of capitalism” that shows “little or no interest for the realities of marginalization, exploitation and human alienation, a lack of concern for the great numbers of people still living in conditions of grave material and moral poverty, and a blind faith in the unbridled development of market forces alone” and invited us “to discern just ways of attaining a globalization that is ‘cooperative’, and thus positive, as opposed to the globalization of indifference”.
It is essential to overcome these constraints to growth in the current environment, where the European economy is facing a number of important challenges, including rapid technological change, accelerating globalisation and ageing populations.