The world order fractures before our eyes. Authoritarianism advances, techno-feudalism tightens its grip, and injustice persists across continents—from brutal wars to corporate plunder and digital surveillance. As strongmen stage military birthday parades and democracies flirt with authoritarianism, Europe faces a stark choice: drift into irrelevance, or rise as a bulwark against the creeping return of power without principle.
This demands reckoning. Europe had its fair share of royalty. Its wealth was built on conquest, extraction, and racial domination. Its colonial legacy survives in structures of debt, trade, migration, and borders. This guilt is real—but so is Europe's potential. What sets it apart is not innocence, but institutional memory: born from its own self-destruction, the European project remains humanity's most radical attempt to embed justice into power—law over will, dignity above command, diversity in unity.
Today's injustices are not accidents. They echo the very logics of domination Europe once exported—and must now resist. While Europe has rid itself of kings, the age of thrones is returning—not in name, but in form. America, a republic founded on the rejection of monarchy, now flirts with its neofascist reinvention: executive fiat, militarised politics, loyalty cults, and the politics of spectacle.
Europe must answer—not with submission, but with courage.
Once coloniser, Europe must now become convenor. Its historic burden must become historic vocation: to serve not as sovereign, but as steward. The world doesn’t need another empire armed with bunker-busting missiles—it needs a beacon of truth and solidarity.
Yet we capitulate. We ignore Gaza's suffering. We flatter dictators. We sacrifice values for trade deals while the world burns. The continent that proclaimed human rights hesitates when justice needs it most.
This is not a crisis of strategy—it is a crisis of will.
Europe must act. We need politics with backbone. Democratic renewal that speaks for diversity and equality. Global institutions built on co-determination, not dominance. Climate justice without delay. Technology without empire. Migration rooted in dignity. And debt cancellation that restores freedom to nations still shackled by colonial economics.
This is no longer about Europe's renewal for its own sake. It is about a global struggle between solidarity and subjugation. In an interdependent world, democracy cannot endure where domination thrives. Europe must refuse thrones—not only in its past, but in its future.
Let this be the moment Europe rises—not to lead the world, but to stand with it. Against kings. Against crowns. Against the return of might-as-right.
Let Europe carry the torch of a better order—where no child trembles under drones, where no elected leader plays emperor, where power serves justice.
Our history will not forgive; the future won't wait. No more kings—now!
This is no longer about Europe's renewal for its own sake. It is about a global struggle between solidarity and subjugation. In an interdependent world, democracy cannot endure where domination thrives. Europe must refuse thrones—not only in its past, but in its future.
Pubblicato il 30 giugno 2025