Progress versus the environment: the toxic belief that condemns Europe

The causes of a society’s decline are often internal. It declines because it maintains or adopts beliefs that prevent it from adapting to a changing world. When a crisis weakens its model, it is tempted to adopt external beliefs that promise an easy solution. These can prove fatal. This is what happened to Europe. Over the past twenty years or so, it has convinced itself that it must sacrifice its industry and agriculture and abandon technological progress to save the environment. This belief is toxic and must be reconsidered if Europe is to halt its decline.

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Why Europe’s answer to Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s attack must be innovation

Europe is reeling from the repeated attacks on it by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Both, in their own way, embody the new challenges Europe is struggling to meet. Musk, with his disruptive innovations, exposes its structural weaknesses, while Trump, the symbol of a transactional, uncompromising world, underlines its inadequacy for a new geopolitical reality. Far from being anomalies, these figures highlight an aging European model, incapable of competing in terms of innovation and asserting itself in the face of determined adversaries. This observation calls for urgent reflection: Europe must wake up from its blindness and undertake profound reforms to avoid irrelevance.

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