In 2040, Europe is prosperous thanks to a dynamic and inspiring business environment. It has done away with pseudo-legislation and pointless and unnecessary bureaucracy, while deregulation has created new industries and technologies - and repatriated much production from the Far East. Technological development is faster in Europe than on any other continent - which in turn has made Europe (the EU) an economic powerhouse. The UK, Norway and Switzerland are closely associated with the EU and participate in the free trade zone and military cooperation. The European armies work closely together to form one of the strongest and most deterrent military powers in the world. This has secured the external borders and deterred aggressors from the rest of the world. European military cooperation has secured Ukraine's freedom and isolated Russia, among other things. The same Russia that has stopped its hybrid war against the EU through a consistent policy of retaliation. Europeans are free people living in healthy democracies with great freedom of speech. Religion has again become a private matter - and the veto of the bully is not tolerated. Jews can once again live in Europe's metropolises without police protection and latent threats of violence. Non-integrable migrants from MENAP countries have left or been deported, further increasing prosperity. Europeans are starting to have children again and fertility rates are steadily increasing. We believe in ourselves and we believe in the future again - and it is the freedom of the individual citizen that is at the center of everything.

After the ruinous economic crisis caused by the European political ruling class corrupted by funds from the Far East, we have regressed to the level of a subsistence economy, where the rich have remained or become even richer, while the working class is suffocated and burdened by economic burdens imposed by laws designed to keep the bureaucratic class (which in fact produces nothing) alive economically by forcing the people to finance the performance of merely bureaucratic acts in the black. the peasant class (in fact agricultural entrepreneurs) live in prosperity as they are privileged (they have land and livestock to survive). Poverty and hardship will lead to the partitioning and management of land by subjects more or less legitimized by residents (protection, food and survival). The spread of depression will lead to the misuse of more or less licit substances (from cheap alcohol to sophisticated drugs for the wealthier classes). a general lack of national pride will cause many things to lose their meaning, and what might have been considered "honorable" will no longer have the same value. In essence there will be a progressive social regression (history teaches: dark times after the fall of the Roman Empire). To those who will still be alive the arduous judgment, even if history will be manipulated to condition minds and social intentions. NCSS: There Will Be No Hope!!!

we came close to disaster but escaped it. Maybe it took the scare to push us to do something. in the 15 years from 2025 to 2040 we realized that the future is not just an abstract idea that someone else will take care of. Sure, things are not perfect, but eventually an agreement was reached among nations to reduce the emissions that are harming the planet. A new consciousness has spread. On the streets, internal combustion cars are increasingly rare, replaced by electric motors or often even bicycles. Technology has moved on but it has also become simpler, with a taste for the essential that was not there in the past so overflowing with frills and driven consumerism. Studies show that global warming is coming under control. The damage has been there and new damage will still be there before the end, but work is being done and successes are being seen. Even in politics having come close to a new world war brought us closer together, first with suspicion, still fearful that this or that other nation was waiting for just the slightest opening for a new attack but then forging bonds. Only 15 years have passed, sure, the process is still in its infancy, but it is well under way. It is not a perfect world. But it is a better world that is improving

I'm very sceptical about the future of tomorrow's world, but without being totally pessimistic, I think that the human race will take the right decisions to enable us all to live together in harmony, albeit partial, but necessary. We absolutely must limit demographics, especially on the African and Asian continents.