I think the biggest problem for Europe is that we don't dream big anymore. Looking back at the 1990s and 2000s, there was still this spirit of grandiosity. Eurotunel, Oresund bridge, building a 60 km railway tunnel under the Alps, a European space program. Now it's all cuts, reductions and downsizings everywhere you look. The only "big thing" the collective Europe could come up with over the past decade was to shut down the nuclear power plants and put up some wind turbines instead... Something like the A380, or Bugatti Veyron, or the Milau bridge would never be greenlit today, everyone would be crying megalomania from the rooftops. We dreamt small, and that's what we became.
