Sometimes recourse are useful, leafing back in old records a good start. Three years ago, at the beginning of the Ukraine secretary, I noted: How powerful is Europe really? How far does his assets actually reach? Isn’t the dream of your own size unrealistic, almost nostalgic? Europe has to do a lot of effort, it only wants to keep up with global development. A year later it was said: Europe stands as far as the war in Ukraine is concerned, despite all the commitment more on the sidelines, does not play equally, but must very well be finished with the consequences … I see as far as Europe is concerned, a past, technically partly, technically partly, keyword, for example digitization, cut -off structures before me, often torn down, from institutional inerty, currently alternative. Added with the USA.