A series on what a European federation could actually change 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.
Posts are published in English, French and German. The French and German versions are machine translations; the English one is the reference.
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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. Independence, or the end of the client state
A judge in The Hague loses his bank cards on a decision taken in Washington. What makes a dependence dangerous, why open source is the foundation of digital independence, and what a federation could make binding.
English · Français and Deutsch coming
4. Built to connect, built to protect. Coming next.
5. The right to the continent. Coming soon.
The whole series at a glance
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.