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Stories for the future of Europe
Join us in exploring the possibilities of the future! Share your future perspectives, discover other people’s visions, and engage in a dialogue on what Europe and the world may look like in the future. We collect, share and distribute your visions in our stories database.
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Stories do shape futures. Dive into the video tutorials to explore how future narratives are born. Further below, browse trough a series of inspiring, thought-provoking stories around challenges and opportunities of our futures.

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Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Construction of the city of Nüwa could start in 2054 and will see 250,000 people live inside the rock of a steep cliff. Freeze my body, melt me in 80 years, and send me to Mars. Architecture studio ABIBOO has revealed its plans to create the first self-sustainable city on the Red Planet, which is set to be ready for residents in 2100. The city will be called Nüwa and will be located at Tempe Mensa on one of the Martian cliffs. Its position inside a rock on the steep cliff will protect its residents from radiation and meteorites (cool!) while still giving them
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#OurFutures stories by EU citizens
Utopie
The entire population would have enough to eat and unlimited access to drinking water, as we desalinate the seas and oceans.
Everyone would have a roof over their heads. No more homelessness.
Everyone would have the same access to medical care and education.
No more immigration problems.
Everyone would live happily in their own country, surrounded by family and friends.
Ou sont nos années bonheur!
In 2040, I'd like things to go back to the way they were between the 1960s and 1980s. Everyone was happy, there was no hatred, no violence, people showed solidarity, there was work everywhere, there was democracy, governments were cool.
We'd need a woman in government, there'd be no war, we'd get back to living together, in fact we'd have to change everything we're living now
En fremtid man kan være i.
The hope for a well-functioning EU In 2040, the woke communist left-wing parliament will be insignificant and powerless. In return, they will be the bourgeois parties in power. There will be a full asylum freeze for all non-Western countries and all illegal immigrants will be deported back. There will be full control over Europe's borders. All fanatical measures for the "climate crisis" will also be stopped. Fission and Fusion reactors are operational and all European countries have installed one or more. Wind turbines and solar farms are no longer relevant. There will still be drilling for oil in the North Sea and Greenland has also become an industrial island, under the Danish Realm of course.
Fossil fuels have won out, so gasoline and diesel cars are still the most optimal. Prices have of course become low and so have taxes.
The economy is growing for both individuals and businesses. And last but not least, it has been established that there are only 2 genders.
Dôchdkyňa
I would like to have my own home, house or apartment. The house should be large and multi-generational. As a family, we always stick together and help each other. That's what I would like to see continued and passed on to the next generation. Secondly, I would like it to be mostly healthy, independent of other people's help. The health care will be excellent and my family will be healthy too, no more cancer and other diseases. People should not be blackmailed by capitalists. They should only work when they want to. IF money will still work, they should be given the means for a decent education and then housing, living...survival, say an RENT like Dubai has. Education, healthcare and transportation is the basic standard. Children should be educated and brought up from an early age as it is currently in Japan and then maybe society will understand that WHAT is the *Higher Principle*. Politics should be solely dealt with by IA, choosing the best options for humanity. At present, only psychopaths with GOD complex are in politics...they can't see further from their noses, they only live in the HERE and NOW. Wars should be banned. In the same way murder should be severely punished, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!" Camurapi's laws apply to people today and even THEN, because BASTARDS have nothing to fear, they have no respect for anything. That's about the way I'd like the sieve to be.
Carnage
2040, I'm 72 years old. I've seen my country collapse under a cultural, cultic and barbaric invasion. I've seen my ancestral religion replaced, destroyed until it disappeared in favor of another, intransigent, intolerant and conquering one. I saw my way of life and my freedoms changed to the point where I no longer recognized myself in any of the areas that made up my life: freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom to care for myself and choose my therapy, freedom to think, freedom to dress Western-style without being insulted. I've seen Europe repress the fantasies of the far-right and turn a blind eye to the real perils that have led to its downfall since 2001. But I saw it all from a distance, because in 2022, at the age of 54, I left Europe. And I got my life back. Happy end of life to the EU. There is no future in Europe.
Mission impossible
this is a very difficult exercise
Europe is an amalgamation of many diverse cultures and peoples, each with its own orientation and its own language and culture
this is the priority so make Europe a real unity with one people, one culture, maybe even one language
but perhaps this is a mission impossible because each nation wants to preserve its individuality.
Tolerance, cooperation,adaptability, strong will to succeed and above all strong leadership showing the way
2040 - a dream come true
Europe 2040 - very different from Europe today. Ukraine, liberated from the Russians with European help, is now a member of EU. The borders have been closed and most immigrants repatriated to their home countries – the right to asylum is only in effect for neighbouring countries. As a consequences crime is less frequent and social tension is lower. Most EU laws has been abolished, except for free trade and free movement. Deregulation and modified climate legislation has created a foundation for growth and stability in Europe. The future is bright!
Un modo finalmente vivibile per tutti
In the future I would like, I imagine a way with no more wars, no more inequality, no more discrimination....political boundaries have been erased and, every single corner of the earth belongs to everyone. There is no more local and foreigner, there are no more religions, the air is clean and resources abound because we have learned to make the most of them without abusing them. We are no longer slaves to gas, oil, coal. Energy comes from the sun, water and wind, as well as from the very wastes we use as fuel. The climate is now stable, cold winters are back, ice and glaciers have returned, and water resources satisfy everyone on earth. Summers are hot but not excessive, and the mid-seasons are back with their colors and scents. There is no more hunger, no more misery. A new world has begun.
Rational consumption
I would like to see our world still there and the wellbeing of people has imprived as well as a enviromental situation, it would be great if the political situation would be stable and people would figure out how to avoid war conflicts. People have made some decisions over their financial well being and made some sacrifices in their consumption traditions which allowed to overcome ecocrisise. Finally some major changes in education have been made and the way to educate new generation has changed
Tranquillity
I survived. After WW3 few have left living as civilization tries to rebuild itself. I work as a butcher and an hunter for our community. I have regular nightmares about how it all started. It started good, europe held against the invaders. As time passed dissidents in the form of immigrants started revolting, changing and sabotazing europe from within. The point of no return happened and nucleard weapons were used. That turned to be devastating to us and the enemy. Most things were destroyed. Now we somehow manage to come by. I live a more happy life than before. No wage slavery, no politics, nothing really just survival. It is peace. It is calm.
Otroctvo alebo sloboda
I would like people to start living by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the moment, this is just my wishful thinking. As it stands now tal humanity is heading towards absolute slavery. Governments ignore the fact, that they are also lem expendable, replaceable mortals, and behave like gods. I wish people would wake up and start acting like equals and most of the problems would be solved on Emi. If they don't, humanity will end up in slavery and that is the last stage of any civilization.
Informazione è futuro
I would like a better future, but that's a rather trite phrase to say, so I'll elaborate...I hope for a future with less ignorance, one that ensures equal education for all and equal access to information for all, so that we can share discoveries, improve ourselves, compete, and face every challenge that this future holds.
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