There is an old story from post-war Europe about a community coming together out of necessity: for peace, for economic renewal, and for a future that could not wait until every detail had been settled.

The urgency was so great that, in the final rush, pages were reportedly still blank. Yet the leaders of this emerging European community signed nonetheless. They signed a future that had not yet been written. This moment would go down in history as the Treaty of Rome, laying the foundation for the European Economic Community.

That spirit feels urgent again today. In an age shaped by artificial intelligence and scientific breakthroughs, there is a growing concern that Europe may be falling behind. The reasons are not obvious. Is it capital, speed, regulation, culture, talent, infrastructure, or something deeper in how we translate ideas into impact? Europe cannot afford to wait until the future is fully legible. It must ask these questions openly, understand where the bottlenecks truly lie, and decide what it wants to build.

Europe on Edge is born from that idea: a space to ask, with rigor and ambition, how Europe can shape its own future rather than merely adapt to someone else's.