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What a future European culture will look like remains an open question. What matters here is the insistence that such a culture must exist at all. Europe should be understood as an idea and a system of symbols, not as a race or a nation. For this to be possible, Europe requires a renewed sense of continuity.

February 23, 2026 - David Hallbeck - Hot TopicsIssue 1-2 2026Magazine

Panorama of Roman Forum Romanum with Temple of Saturn Aedes Saturni and ancient Via Sacra at in historic center of Rome Photo: ArtMediaFactory / Shutterstock

Europe is a continent at the end of a continent, profoundly alone, desperately cornered, at the end of the world. In a recent publication from the Russian foreign ministry the author stated that Russia is ready to burn everything right up until the English Channel and that it is easier to negotiate with Europe when the Russians are in Berlin or Paris.

People surprisingly often mean what they say. In the last few years we have seen that Europe is almost completely dependent, incapable of taking any decisions of its own, and simultaneously characterized by a complete servility westwards and a complete cowardice, the courage being limited to true, but meaningless condemnations, eastwards. The effects of sanctions nobody has really seen.

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