A quest called Europa

Map of Europe with the question: what does Europe promise you, personally, for the next twenty years?

A series on what a European federation could actually put in the life of the people living in it. Not how to fix the institutions: what it would change for you, personally, and what it would cost. Each proposal comes with its price tag and its funding, and the ones whose arithmetic does not close are dropped.

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The posts

1. Europe isn’t broken. Few want it, yet.

The engine works. Very few people want it. What this series will propose, and why the political class has not produced a project people would fight for in fifty years.

2. An inheritance for everyone, paid for by inheritance

Europe transmits 1,500 to 2,000 billion euros a year from parents to children, mostly at 60, to a few. Each family keeps a first share; the rest goes to every young European, at 20, 25 and 30.

3. Dignity, or the end of the client state. Coming next.

The whole series at a glance

The fourteen proposals of the series, in four layers: what relieves daily life, what makes people dream, what gives the project depth, and meaning

Who writes this

Gaël Duval. Creator of Mandrake Linux and /e/OS, CEO of Murena. I believe Europe’s nations no longer carry any weight on their own, and that a federal Europe is the only way not just to keep them from disappearing, but to give their people something immense to hope for again. That is why I write this. The series is written with the help of AI tools for research, structure and drafting; the ideas, the choices and the mistakes are mine.