[...] Europe, free, beyond conspiracies, independent and with a strong cultural consciousness, can play its universal role, transforming the process of globalization into a universality of ideas, societies, peoples, and nations. After all, this is what history, the future, demands.
The motivations for writing this book were the very course of Europe up to today, the unpleasant surprises that humanity experiences, the denial of cultural values, the leveling of behaviors and choices, as well as the artificial rift between the history of the past and the history of the future.
[...] (from the book's preface)