Want it or not, the European Union is still a leading force in many things. Quality standards, systematizations, unique solutions – all these come from Europe, mainly Germany or France. The rest of the world, including the USA, China, and Russia, adapts and adopts the novelties.
But Europe is more of that. The land of freedom, great social care, planet-friendly philosophy, and practical applications of the three. It still represents the “cooperation of nations, personal freedom, and the welfare state”, as Slavoj Zizek, one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkersby Foreign Policy, exposed at the 17th Bled Strategic Forum.