The question for Europe is no longer whether it should become a global power, but whether it can do so democratically and in time to shape, rather than endure, the new world order that is now emerging. Fortunately, European citizens are increasingly aware of what is at stake.
Ten years after the Brexit vote in Great Britain and as the international order became brutal again, the EuropaNova ideas laboratory and political and intellectual figures (1) are calling for a burst to build a great European democratic power. There is an urgent need to act together on all fronts.