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This essay is considering the institutions of the European Union as a coordinative construction. Different forms of coordination are investigated, and the roles of national cultures are considered.  This is pointing towards a question of coordinating the internal coordination of the member states, rather than superseding these with a centralized form of political coordination combined with unhindered operation of market forces.   The connection between coordination and innovation is brought up and related to a possibility of internalizing conflicts and problems that are affecting several member states. Innovation is also related to creating synergy, and a particular kind of synergy between cultural and natural phenomena is related to the formation of national cultural cohesion. This can seem to make a cultural form of coordination particularly important as a conditioning factor for economic and political coordination. A reconstruction of the European Union is deemed important in order to obtain a form of coordination that can make use of cultural diversity as a source of innovation.

Den europæiske labyrint har undertitlen “systemteoretisk puslespilsmodel samler brikkerne fra Europas historie”.Dette antyder, at der er tale om et ambitiøst projekt, der handler om at beskrive og om muligt forklare europæisk historie som en form for systemudvikling. Dette gøres ved at inddele det historiske forløb i en række epoker, der har hver sit kulturområde som udviklingsmæssig basis.Efterhånden som flere af disse kulturområder har leveret deres klassiske bidrag til udviklingen af europæisk civilisation, så fremtræder der også et mere komplekst samspil mellem forskellige europæiske kulturer. Dette samspil beskrives ved brug af politiske og økonomiske såvel som filosofiske og religiøse begreber og ideer, men der opstilles også en samlende model (uden brug af matematik), hvor de forskellige epoker ses som faser i konstruktionen af et overordnet civilisatorisk system.Gennemgangen føres helt frem til nutiden, og selv om europæisk civilisation opfattes som et langt mere omfattende begreb end EU, så overvejes det, om EU kan få en art styrende rolle i forbindelse med en videre civilisatorisk udvikling.Bogen beskriver imidlertid også en udviklingsmæssig dynamik, som bl.a. har ført til dannelsen af netop EU, og overvejer en eventuel fortsættelse af denne dynamik, hvorved der kan påpeges nogle retninger og sammenhænge, der må indarbejdes i et sådant projekt, hvis ikke det senere skal falde fra hinanden.Herudover giver bogen en antydning af et samspil mellem europæisk civilisation og andre såvel ældre som yngre civilisationer.

Will it in some way be possible to detect the remains of a European civilization underneath the precarious structures of the European Union?The answer to this question may seem to depend on, whether the national cultures of the European area can represent various sections of building blocks that can be collected and connected to form a civilization, or whether they may rather seem to constitute some more or less accidental agglomerations of people that merely happen to belong to related families of language and culture.The second hypothesis does not seem to require too much further explanation, whereas the first hypothesis may need a model to help explain the identities of national cultures, their relationships to different geographical landscape formations, and their mutual interconnectedness that in a way may serve to constitute an entire civilization.This essay, or collection of essays, is pursuing the first hypothesis through a model of basic categories of activity that can be related to process dynamical logic of progression, and registration of data, together with various modes of circumstantial precaution.European cultures are assumed to be formed around particular basic categories of activity that may also appear to be reflected in different forms of landscape.Different types of cultural evolution are further considered, and it is argued that adaptive as well as subversive forms of evolution are important with respect to the impact of civilization on national cultural developments and vice versa.Critical factors of development are moreover considered, and it is suggested that the present European Union may eventually evolve into a new synthesis that can connect various critical tendencies, in a way that may give European civilization a new overall dynamical direction. Similar developments, with respect to critical syntheses of the past, are related to crucial turns of various historical epochs, and such epochs can seem to be lasting about 500 years.Interplay of different civilizations is considered more in relation to a possible new era, an even more lengthy period of time.Impact of various civilizational models on evolution of civilization is supposed to act indirectly, as catalytic influence on critical and subversive evolutionary tendencies, through formulations related to art, science, philosophy and religion. Questions of order, balance and justice that can seem particularly relevant with respect to subversive evolution are also being introduced and considered gradually.It may take a courageous and persistent yet open-minded intellect to embark on the reading of this essay.