As EU Member State citizens, we face a plethora of collective challenges: from the consequences of climate change all the way to immigration, through the negative externalities of the 4th industrial revolution to the threat of international terrorist networks.

In order to address these challenges, individual EU Member States have to bind together. To paraphrase the former Danish Finance Minister,Kristian Jensen: “There are two kinds of European nations. There are small nations and there are countries that have not yet realized they are small nations.”