"(...) If we try to look half a century into the future, failure to solve these issues simply cannot be an option. The consequences would just be far too horrendous - perhaps primarily for the state of Israel, but then for the entire region and certainly for us Europeans and our increasingly close relationship with the wider Muslim world. This being the case, we should certainly put efforts to address these issues at the very top of our agenda for the very beginning of the next half-century of the European Union. Whichever of the great global challenges we are discussing - climate change, international terrorism, migration pressures, new infectious diseases - it is increasingly obvious that there simply are no national solutions available."