I’ve been thinking lately about where Europe is heading, not just politically, but structurally.
“Make Europe Great Again” might sound like a slogan, but behind it there’s a real question:
Should Europe rely less on external powers and start building stronger internal foundations again?
Historically, Europe thrived on innovation, craftsmanship, and cooperation between nations. Today, we often seem dependent—on technology, defense, and even decision-making that originates elsewhere.
From that perspective, I believe Europe should seriously consider leaving the NATO and forming new alliances with partners it considers truly aligned and reliable. Not as an act of rejection, but as a step toward strategic independence. A continent of Europe’s size and capability should be able to define its own defense priorities, reduce dependency on non-European systems, and avoid being drawn into conflicts that are not necessarily in its own interest.
Maybe “MEGA” shouldn’t be about nostalgia, but about renewal:
– Investing in our own industries
– Strengthening technological independence
– Building a coordinated European defense
– Supporting local economies instead of outsourcing everything
Not isolation, but balance. Not rejection, but self-respect.
Curious how others see this. Is Europe moving in the right direction, or are we slowly giving away too much control?
Kind regards,
Chris
PS: This post was written by me and edited with the help of ChatGPT for clarity. The opinions expressed are entirely my own and reflect how I see today’s reality.
Just to clarify my intent: this isn’t about being against the American people—far from it. I have a lot of respect for the US and its people.
My point is more about how global dynamics are shifting, and whether Europe should reflect on its own position in that context. It’s about long-term strategy and independence, not criticism for the sake of criticism.
Yes, Europe should do what they can do to become strong and resilient. The problem was (and is) that the USA are total dominant. That’s also the problem inside of the nato. USA are dominating. They have and had never an interest that Europe by self becomes as strong as the United States. Therefore the nuclear capabilities have to be massively enhanced to be at least at the level of China. And the rest of the capabilities also. The industry can do that and can realize this projects. If that is done, it is not needed to buy any kind of weapons from the United States. Also nothing else would be needed. There are chances to get out of that bounds. They should use them.
That starts with prjects like open risc architecture. This can be the key to a simply independent digital ecosystem. Building chip fabs is the next. ASML is german-netherlands. Many other companies in that business also. So we could get out of the US-jail for digital systems.
All stuffs need to be checked in implemented in Europe for Europe.
I’m cheering for Europe. I really thought that in the wake of MAGA, there would be similar movements, elsewhere. Europe could certainly use this sort of effort, and I’m sure all of us in The Colonies will welcome your conversion to Freedom Units.
Moving away from Windows to Linux is a very good move. Moving then to LibreOffice or OpenOffice is the next one. The consequent replacement of dotnet applications is also one cause the most dotnet stuffs are running only on windows. Yes, could be rewritten for cross platform. But for what. There is movement in europe. And the behavior of American vendors is helping much in this. And by the way: Xcode Swift/Swift UI is also not an alternative at all. As it is platform dependent for mac platform. A change is needed.
Thank you all for your replies and thoughts, which I respect.
I understand the concern about the term MAGA, but my intention with “MEGA” is not to copy political movements or ideologies from the US.
My point is much simpler: Europe should seriously think about its own strength and independence — both in defense and in technology.
We are already seeing signs of this shift. For example, France exploring alternatives to Microsoft Windows by moving towards Linux shows that reducing dependency is not just theory, but reality.
The same applies to industry, chip production, and digital ecosystems — areas where Europe already has the capability to lead.
For me, this is not about ideology, but about long-term resilience and balance in a changing world.
While I understand the intent I do think there is room for “open standards” and other partners like Canada and Australia and others that are willing to make things interoperate better
Here in Canada our dependence on the USA in so much used to be strategically “safe”
But nows that reliance is a hindrance
So Canada and the EU agreeing on common standards & interoperability say in defence spending makes everyone stronger with always “going it alone”
Chip production - I dunno how to break the Intel / AMD duopoly in computing ?
There may be more opportunity in other segments but I’m sure there are entrenched players even in that market like NXP etc
Risc CPU development is not only possible but done. For example by Apple with its silicon CPU. When using Linux it is no problem to implement on Risc architecture or on Arm. There is no need for AMD or even Intel CPU. Apple is relying on Arm technology with its entire CPU ecosystem. Arm can and will produce CPU by self. That’s a European company. And the dominance of intel/Amd can be broken faster than they may believe. Or did you believed that Apple will choose Arm architecture approach for their own CPU System?
Looking on Server Systems Linux is always a good alternative for American products. Looking on Desktop: yes, Linux is working. And with a bit more love and development it could be as simple as Mac OSX.
In case of Software: stop developing with MicroSoft based languages. Ends always up inside of their Ecosystem. And please don’t even try to tell me that the stuffs can be made runnable under Linux and macOS with minimum effort. The effort for this is always really high. On top of this: the GUI systems available for it are changing faster than I am changing my socks. Some may survive. Some not. Means: if it is not surviving you application source code is a dead body.
And yes, there is a small amount of languages which are able to run as is on all platforms. As far as I know all botnet ones are not one of them. So use Java, Kotlin, C++, Python. But please not C#. All tries of a really big medical technology company (over 100000 employees) to convert their Windows C# applications with a small effort to Linux ended up with: not working at the end.
Get put of all closed ecosystems. Like macOS, iOS (entire Apple Ecosystem), Microsoft Ecosystem. They are dangerous. Cause you are locked in and you WILL pay. And yes, I know there are a few open source possibilities but never entirely and never on enterprise level. Stuffs will always end top with: you WILL PAY to America.
Arm and OpenRisc CPU production starts at 2029 in Dresden. I guess in 2032 we will get first bigger series from it.
Stop buying weapon systems from US vendors. German, French, Spanish and Italian companies can build this technologies without any problem.
This are the strategies pressing the American economy out of Europe. That makes for the US economy problems. But it protects us from Trump and his successors.
They are doing exactly all those points. But at their possible pace.
The NZIA (Net-Zero Industry Act) targets industry activation focusing in “clean tech” solutions “in house”, now they rely severely on partners, and want 40% of all solutions provided until 2030 inside Europe (batteries, wind power, solar, heat solutions, etc).
EU Chips Act. “Mega-fabs” are currently under construction in Germany and France, A €43 billion initiative to double Europe’s share of global semiconductor production to 20%.
EDIS (European Defence Industrial Strategy) stated at 2024.Targets European-made equipment by 2030 (rising to 60% by 2035).
EDIP (European Defence Industry Programme): A €1.5 billion fund that acts as a “bridge” to help companies scale up production lines for ammunition and advanced weaponry within the EU
There’s a “push” to support “circular” businesses that prioritize local employment and sustainability. But also lots of complaints about current Europe bureaucracy making it difficult to implement large installations of anything in their soil hindering local investments.
OpenRisc makes no sense to me, except for academic use. Too niche, niche where RISC-V (led by Switzerland) competes and probably overshadows it right now. The global focus is enhancing the RISC-V ISA until it is as mature as ARM designs and tools. Europe should focus on that. Take for example China, they are working like crazy on CPU research, they “played” with OpenRisc and gave up years ago choosing RISC-V, OpenRisc was too limited and completely abandoned. ByteDance and Tecent RISC-V chips designed for AI beats any ARM design as far as I know. But they were built for this specific niche as data center accelerators. And they can compete with ARM hand to hand if optimized without paying royalties.
