Power comes with responsibility, and Europe carries on its back the burden of fulfilling the expectations that the world has set for her. However, the cohesion and unity it dresses with is not that clear in the present moment. There seems to be a vacuum between power and politics, which in the end leads to a lack of leadership, and citizens lose faith in the state’s ability to take decisions and deliver promises. Problems are increasingly becoming global while the instruments of political action are still constrained to the nation-state. How then can we deal with a set of problems whose origin is far beyond the borders of the European Union? We are facing, as the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci described, a state of “interregnum” – where the old is already dead or dying, but the new has not yet been born.

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