"As we act together, we will rediscover something that has long been dormant. Our pride, self-confidence, and belief in our future, and on that foundation, Europe will be built."
- Mario Draghi
Enough bashing of Europe. It’s an incredible place! Seven reasons to be bullish on Europe - and what we still need to change:
✅ Highly educated population, good schools—e.g., 79.6% tertiary attainment (25–34) vs. 49.4% US
✅ Great infrastructure—e.g., 87% live within 10 km of a railway station
✅ Strong social safety net—e.g., universal healthcare in most EU states
✅ Less debt than US—e.g., 81.6% debt-to-GDP vs. 124%
✅ Functioning democracy, strong values—e.g., 8.1/10 Democracy Index vs. 7.8 US
✅ Beauty draws talent—e.g., 10 of 27 EU countries top US HDI
✅ Affordable engineers—e.g., €50–70K vs. $90–120K US
But this is not enough. Here’s what needs to be done:
☑️ Reform investment and pension programs to drive more investment into growth.
☑️ Increase AI adoption and radically boost digitisation.
☑️ Make it easier/faster to hire international top talent.
☑️ Create a level playing field for fair competition against Big Tech. DMA is great legislation but needs to be enforced.
☑️ Our values are strong but we need to combine them with pragmatism.
«Possiamo far rivivere lo spirito innovativo del nostro continente. Possiamo recuperare la capacità di difendere i nostri interessi. E possiamo dare speranza ai nostri popoli. I governi e i parlamenti nazionali del nostro continente, la Commissione e il Parlamento europeo sono chiamati a essere i custodi di questa speranza in un momento di svolta nella storia dell'Europa. Se uniti, saremo all'altezza della sfida e avremo successo». (Mario Draghi)
The news of the last weeks makes me confident that Europe is waking up! To support these developments, we need less bureaucracy and more venture capital.
Mistral and Helsing, two of Europe’s most valuable startups, are partnering to apply artificial intelligence technology to warfare https://t.co/CvRzeUSkUM
European founders are so so so ready to push Europe to the next level of efficiency
It’s simple. Open up. Free them.
API-first administrations, open source.
Let 🇪🇺 talent automate everything: fintechs, SAAS, AI chat.. let them transform Europe, set up UIs, set free European businesses and people’s time from bureaucracy overload
Yes, there are self-imposed european massive tariffs that tomorrow @vonderleyen , @EU_Commission could free by saying: you know better how to fix this, do it.
It’s time for a high performance Europe
A c c e l e r a t e
E u r o p e an F u t u r e
The future is not written
We, Europeans, write our future.
We build it. We shape it. We transform it.
That’s what founders do.
Together, let’s build the future of Europe.
For this, Europe needs you to unite and speak up.
Amplify 🔊🔊🔊🔊
Quick update on EURC 💶
• you can now trade EURC for EUR 1:1 on @CoinbaseExch, without any conversion fees
• you can transfer your EURC from your @coinbase account to @base with zero fees
• you can send your EURC around the world from your Coinbase account or @CoinbaseWallet on Base for zero fees
• you can swap your EURC onchain for USDC on @AerodromeFi, and it is >10x faster and 2-10X cheaper compared to traditional FX means
• on/off-ramping and using euros onchain has never been easier
The euro is finally onchain. FX is finally coming onchain. Go EURC!