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I agree that nation-state are still the best tool for collective action, but I also argue, as some Political leaders, that in some nation-states are not able to take control of their people's future. However, these Political leaders maintain the great part of political and distributive powers in the nation-state: they reinforce the link between politics and culture even if this not fit anymore with the economic conditions.



I stress that we need to think of new criteria to shape the state. The new criteria must depend on economic conditions and not on the idea of nation. It is the only way for empowering the states (by giving them control of their material existence) and, therefore, empowering the people, strengthen democracy and reshape global economy.



Nevertheless, in the mean time, some countries, in which Political leaders plead impotence, need to transfer political powers to regional institutions. In the case of Europe, I argue that European leaders must formulate a political discourse centered in the regional condition of justice in order to overtake both the nationalist rhetoric of the radical right and the undemocratic justification of national economic impotence.



It is certain that nation-state is all that we have for now, but this must start to change immediately in order to strengthen liberalism, democracy and to improve the global economy.