Life expectancy is rapidly increasing. It’s a third fantastic success associated with science and technology applied to human health. The European construction has proved effective and efficient in transforming Western Europe. It is a fourth success. And partially as a consequence of this economic and structural success the iron curtain fell, a major fifth success.
But each and every of those successes are making as many new challenges. They call for changes in the international division of labour, for changes in the production process in the production sector, for dramatic reviewing of the financing of pensions and for particular structural transformation of our economies in Europe associated both with the integration of Europe and with enlargement.