" An admiring assistant, who sang his praises, asked Federico Fellini one year before his death: "Master, don't you believe that Europe is at risk of falling into decadence?" He gave a definite reply: "Young man, Europe's decadence began when the Roman Empire fell!" Without attempting to match the flamboyant dialectic of the great Italian director and writer, the hosts of the Economic Defence Council and the authors of Eurodefence present analyses and proposais, aiming to show that beyond the vicissitudes of negotiations and treaties or letting things drift away, European economies and civilisations can only daim to play their worldwide rote in the 21st century if they are able to construct their life insurance together: their security and their defence.
It is France's rote to initiate, in a group of countries "who want it and can do it," constructive reflection on a security and defence project, taking inspiration from the example of the euro in the monetary domain ". Philippe Esper