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Everyone feels the changes that are shaking up our institutions: our usual ways of thinking are increasingly challenged. Europe is perceived as an area of renewal, yet hampered by a governance that is still seeking its effectiveness. It must find a way to preserve what has made its strength: quarrelsome kingdoms, in constant emulation.

It is the cradle of key words of the previous change, such as “capitalism”, “socialism”, “communism”, “liberalism”¹, “ecology”, etc. But in the four corners of the continent, these words do not have the same resonance, which makes dialogue sometimes complicated.

With the development of mobility tools, it is becoming the socially and economically sound area that has the right scale to dare a new model of society. It can achieve this by seizing the technological shift in digital technology and energy production.

When it comes to innovation, it is futile to chase the one who has become the leader. It is better to watch for the next innovation and seize it. That’s what’s happening right now in energy, but especially in digital technology.

Digital is not just a technology. It is an amplifier for the model of society. The new digital, which we will discuss here, is the main springboard for 21st century Europe.

It can do so because its people want it to. It does not have to adapt to the changes that the leaders of the 20th century were trying to impose on it.

The 19th and 20th centuries were marked by technological innovations that excited those who could benefit from them. But they were abused. Now comes the time for rationalization, that is, the time to put things into perspective and to rebuild a more mature model of society with a more complex governance, despite the defenders of Cartesian thinking who are used to treating our problems in silos, even if this has been our strength until now. To do this, we have to broaden the range of talent that is needed to steer the ship that is Europe.

A learning process understood by the greatest number is required. A necessary and desired metamorphosis, but not too fast if we want to do it in depth for a lasting result.

There is nothing to prevent this. Europeans are very good at thinking by themselves and for themselves. They have a particularly continuous societal heritage. It is deep and solid, but difficult to maneuver … unless a surge of enthusiasm is triggered. Understanding this continuity is already laying the foundations for our renewal because ideas are more easily forged in cultural continuity, which facilitates gradual evolutions rather than revolutions.