In 2050, Europe has become a continent where technology and sustainability are at the core of its daily life. Cities, once full of traffic and pollution, are now green ecosystems, where autonomous vehicles float silently on floating roads and buildings are covered with vertical gardens that purify the air. 25 years ago, in 2025, the fight against climate change intensified, with a global focus on renewable energy and the transition to the circular economy. During the first two decades, Europe adopted clean technologies, and by 2035, most European countries achieved net-zero emissions. Large corporations began investing in social welfare, and governments implemented more inclusive and equitable policies. Now, in this 2040 future, education is completely digital and personalized, and people can choose their life paths through algorithms that foster the balance between work, health and well-being. Nations collaborate in global projects that promote peace, and physical boundaries no longer exist, for union is the basis of progress. Europe is an example of how humanity can reinvent itself, showing that the future, when faced with hope and action, is a place full of possibilities.

1. All products will become services. We will no longer pay with money. We don't have any more possessions. No home no car no appliances. We are going to borrow more stuff and we are going to exchange more, this means that there is a barter. Shopping has become a distant memory. We have found a solution for green energy.

People would finally understand how important it is to save nature. People would support recycling and would be buying less things that they don't really need. Vegetarian options would be more available in cafes and restaurants. People would respect nature and look at it as a gift. There would be a stronger sense of community. Institutions would take social problems more seriously and try to help the less fortunate as best as they can, not ignore the problems. People would be friendlier and more supportive of each other. We would use renewable energy and produce less toxic waste from factories. People would more use public transport and not only use their personal cars when not absolutely needing it which could reduce emissions. Climate change needs would slow down and endangered species would thrive. Clean drinking water and affordable housing would be more accessible to the general public. There would be better working conditions and a lower unemployment rate. There would be work and life balance and people would find time to volunteer and enjoy their families and hobbies.

I would like us in Europe to be less blocked by asphyxiating rules and fixed rules, I would like to see their role given to work, business and well-being, being less guided by ideology and more, much more by common sense. The Europe that I would like should have certain, clear and secure rules for the immigration of people from other countries, to allow everyone, at last, the real possibility of building a future and not of being thrown here and there into the hands of traffickers and criminals who make a profit from their desperate presence, and those who decide to settle here will have to integrate themselves into our Western rules, for common progress. I want Europe to succeed in the future in establishing rules, norms and laws that are appropriate to the feelings of all countries and that the contribution of each individual nation is recognized and valued as it deserves. I would be very happy if Europe, in the field of defence and in relations with the other great world powers, regained its authority and autonomy, managing to play a major role in world economic policy and was no longer at the mercy of other countries, the current situation of European industry, on the brink of the abyss, is a result of sudden and wicked choices that have caused incalculable damage to the European industrial structure, just think of the ideologically short-sighted rules on electric cars, which favor other powers to our detriment.