Did the band on board RMS Titanic play? (I) (for English speaking people)

When I hear what people say about the EU, I imagine  a repeated refrain. The same story, again and again. 

Few are the ones who put the cards on the table. I care for the youth people, those who try to learn, those who discover, those who represent the future.

The European Union is not really critical. It  is conformist, because it is afraid. 

Its civil servants, officials, or those living in it, they are afraid of losing status . The European  politicians are afraid of losing elections. Little progress can be made ​​in a world full of fears.

There are meetings, conferences, jobs, traveling, debates, roundtables, in the thousands. Perhaps to corroborate that old saying about creating a working group, when you don't want to actually fix something.

What's done is done. It can not be changed.
There were reasons in the past. This is not about blaming, found a guilty guy or apologize. It is about finding alternatives and solutions, about efficiency. We have to look out not only inward. In the current world there are more issues than the European Union. Let be critics and do not be content with euphemisms, without going deep to the heart of the question.

How are we seen from other parts, outside Europe? What is our real place? What is our projection, future?

I do not like the simple description of optimistic or pessimistic, anti- European or pro-European. It is not about that. 

What fills me, it is the example set by the Founding Fathers of this republic across the Atlantic. An exercise in sanity, common sense, commitment, future, wisdom, solidarity and generosity in search of a common good. We need to find that spirit and the "13 states" ready to start the journey.
At the outbreak of the republic, in 1776, there was a vital issue: slavery. Subject which is difficult to size in our days, though Mr. Spielberg recently made a film and Daniel Day Lewis, plus others, put the genius to work. In 1776 the discussion was postponed for better times, but progress was reached in other essential issues.

I often think of the wise oncologist analyzing biological parameters from a patient for a complicated diagnosis. Or construction engineer of the RMS Titanic on its first and last voyage, after the fatal iceberg collision. Both  gentlemen distressed, knowing scientific or physical reality.

We should react calmly, with sense of humor, without believing we are special, but be honest and constructive. If we love the music we played. I'll take the example of the Wallace Hartley Band , to keep doing what they liked till the end. And the nicest thing is to do it for others, the future people of Europe.
Folks, it has been my pleasure playing with you.