The urgent need for a more sustainable and resilient EU has indeed been emphasised by the pandemic. The need for cooperation and innovation has hardly ever been greater
Europe is its peoples, its diversity, its creativity, its historical, artistic, and landscape heritage, its openness, its tolerance, but also its wars, its tragedies and its shameful events...
The European Union has fulfilled is historic mission. Bravo! But this was the challenge of last century. New century. New world. New challenge.
These issues are intellectually interesting as they make us reflect on the philosophical, social and political foundations of our post-enlightenment Europe.
We must embrace new knowledge and technologies and deploy them to the benefit of a farming model that successfully addresses economic and environmental sustainability.
I believe that Re-Imagine Europa is very well placed to stimulate this process through its vast connection with progressively thinking research and academic networks. We need all this potential to be at the service of Europe.
Digital is the new "genetic code" of reality which triggers the way people live and interact. What citizens need is urgent dissemination of digital culture.