« We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them", said Albert Einstein. Does this also apply to institutions? If there's one nuance our team holds dear, it's this: the European Union and Europe are two different realities. The EU has grown so much in recent years that it is regularly confused and trivialised with Europe in the media. But Europe existed before the EU and will undoubtedly exist after it. The EU is merely an attempt to realise an idea, a centuries-old dream, that the nations of Europe should share a common political destiny. The EU has a considerable record in this area. It has succeeded in guaranteeing peace between its nations for several decades, and in enabling the nations of Eastern Europe, which had suffered so much under the yoke of the USSR, to join an ideal of peace, prosperity and freedom. Its institutions have served this ideal with pride and loyalty for many years, but are they still capable of doing so? We seem to have serious doubts about this, but we're looking for a glimpse of the "after". Because yes, and this is where the distinction is so important, [...]