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Vision
Europe is the most ambitious political experiment in our time.
In a world that is moving toward a new fragmentation and wars of aggression, Europe keeps alive the possibility of a different history.
The project of European unity is the only way our continent can become a place of autonomy and dignity and a force for peace. It also represents an extraordinary adventure of political imagination, capable of redefining the meaning of the economy, democracy, the relationship between people and technology, and between people and the environment, as well as the very organization of the world and of our individual lives.
However, for this project to become reality, it is necessary to regain the desire and strength to imagine and build the future.
Europe has always been a visionary project of transformation, but in recent years that vision has been clouded.
India uses the expression “Developed India 2047”, pledging that by the centenary of independence the country will have become a prosperous civilization rediscovering confidence in itself.
China looks to 2049, the centenary of the People’s Republic, and anchors its horizon to the formula “the great Chinese rejuvenation”: modernization, technological primacy, and geopolitical centrality.
Europa 2057 restores clarity of purpose and long term vision. We take the centenary of the signing of the 1957 Treaties of Rome, which set the process of European unification in motion, as the milestone for Europe’s transformative agenda.
Europa 2057 is both a laboratory of ideas and a platform for action; it is an audiovisual and editorial initiative; it is a network of individuals and events; and is a community for all those who wish to rediscover the spirit of radical imagination.
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Francesca Bria
Europe is losing its grip on the future — or more precisely, on the means of the future. Caught between competing scenarios of global transformation driven by the United States and China, it has so far failed to develop a bold, radical strategy for its own technological and digital development.
In this essay, Francesca Bria calls for an ambitious, integrated strategy to build Europe’s digital infrastructure: the industrial, communications, and resource backbone without which sovereignty remains an empty word. From securing critical materials to retaining top scientists, from chip fabrication to energy supply, Europe will have no say in the future unless it reclaims sovereignty over what has become our dominant ecology of thought and action: the Stack.
Francesca Bria is an innovation economist working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and political economy. She co-founded the EuroStack Initiative and is lead author of the EuroStack Report, the blueprint for European digital sovereignty now backed by a coalition of over 250 companies, the European Parliament, and EU member states. Her recent work on the Authoritarian Stack maps how concentrated tech power and ideological capital are privatizing sovereignty and reshaping democratic institutions.
She is honorary professor at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and a fellow at Stiftung Mercator in Berlin. She sits on the board of the European Innovation Council, chairs the New European Bauhaus Facility at the European Commission, and serves as president of ART-ER, the Innovation Agency of Emilia-Romagna, where she leads the Apply AI strategy. She is a member of the International AI Council convened by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Playlist
Video
In these interviews, our guests articulate their conception of Europe by interpreting the current context in order to envision the future of the European continent and to identify the actions required to genuinely complete the process of European unification.
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Podcast
In our podcast series, we engage with philosophers, intellectuals, writers, and political leaders, starting from a simple yet essential question: what do we want Europe to be on the occasion of its centenary in 2057?