In contrast, global governance offers solid options for overcoming the inadequacies of the world of states and the shortcomings of a purely market-oriented conduct of affairs. The aim of the Foundation is to help highlight areas in which there are blocks to thinking, or where power is put to obstructive use, and to help lift these blockades. This involves working through deep-seated conflicts of aims and interests. There is no reason why politics should not do the necessary here, and follow the dictates of good sense. The gap between the needs of people at the local level and trends at the global level needs to be bridged by regional components.
Regional governance is one of the building-blocks of global governance .
In Europe, the body performing this function is the expanding European Union, and the object here must be to help foster a democratically constituted EU of a kind that will help shape global policy in an emancipated and effective way. The global structural policy which is the stated objective of the German government can only have a significant impact if implemented via the European Union. For this to happen, Germany s political interests within both the European and the international context need to be defined. There would also need to be coherence between German and European interests. Finally, in a modern state, organizational structures must move away from the classic paradigm of departmental responsibility, towards government activity based on global cross-sectoral terms of reference.