THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY IN THE GLOBAL LANDSCAPE OF THE 21ST CENTURY

摘要

The discussion related to the Future of Europe* (Kuklinski, 1997) should try to sail in the middle golden stream between Scylla of voluntaristic and the Charybdis of fatalistic approaches. The voluntaristic approaches in this field are expressed in the value judgement that the individual and collective will of European societies can shape the future of our continent irrespective of the trends prevailing in the global environment. The fatalistic approaches represent the opinion that the European freedom of choice is vastly reduced or even totally eliminated by the patterns which are produced in the framework of the "almighty" globalisation process.