Among European citizens, support for remaining in the European Union is overall higher today than in previous years. However, support for expansion and further political and economic integration remains rather lukewarm

On the one hand we see the EU struggling to enforce its principles internally and on the other we see it wavering in its commitments externally, sometimes sacrificing the protection of fundamental rights to achieve other objectives, as is the case with the management of migratory flows

In these thirty years of the World Wide Web, Europe has focused above all on the protection of users, but has somewhat lost the race to create big tech companies like the American and Chinese corporations that dominate digital industries

Europe risks falling to the ultralow fertility rates of some East Asian countries, yet the problem of demographic decline no longer seems to be at the center of the EU's policy agenda

Today Russia and China display a contemporary version of imperial behavior. Europe must decide the place it wants to have in this new geopolitical vision in order to continue to survive as a liberal construction

In the early modern period, the Little Divergence' shifted Europe's economic from South to North. Reducing the NorthSouth divide was fa priority objective of the process of European integration, while today the focus is on reducing the gap between Western and Eastern Europe. These efforts have achieved substantial results, but there are problems that remain unheeded