The Seven Romans

The Seven Romans

Note: This text is purely a construct of ideas and a thought experiment – not a finished constitutional draft, but an impulse for further thinking. Europe does not have a leadership problem. It has a design problem. Ursula von der Leyen is not the problem. The system that produced her is the problem. Appointed, not elected. Accountable to bodies that nobody can name. A face without a mandate. That is not a communication problem. That is how it is written in the treaties. ...

Politics · April 28, 2026 · 4 min · René Jochum