Thinking about future of Europe

Recently I've read nice and hopeful piece of writing by Ploum:

In the media, success is often reduced to the size of a company or the bank account of its founder. Can we just stop equating success with short-term economic growth? What if we used usefulness and longevity? What if we gave more value to the fundamental technological infrastructure instead of the shiny new marketing gimmick used to empty naive wallets? Well, I guess that if we changed how we measure success, Europe would be incredibly successful.

And, as Europeans, we could even be proud of it. Proud of our inventions. Proud of how we contribute to the common good instead of considering ourselves American vassals.\

As European I would like to feel proud of our achievements. However, I also feel that we are looking too much into the past and not enough into the future. It's true that a lot of stuff invented here is now used worldwide, but I don't see like we are competing with the world anymore.

I've listened to conversation with Konstantin Kisin during my morning walk today. Probably it wasn't the best choice, because there's not much positives there and it paints rather gloomy view of Europe standing in the world's power dynamic. We are too focused on ourselves and internal bureaucracy. I don't know if there's a way to change that in the near future without something that will shake up EU directly. I hope it won't be another