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Head of Global OEM & KA Sales 🌍 | Creating Shared Value Through Strategic Partnerships 🍃 | Scale-up 🚀 | Automotive ▪ X-ray ▪ F&B 🍎 | ex- EY ▪ JLR ▪ Nissan | Advocate for Liberal Democracy 🗽 | IESE AMP 2016

While I believe that #European identity and its successes are rooted in much more than just its Judeo-Christian heritage, I will set that discussion aside for now. Instead, I want to highlight two poignant observations that vividly portray the current state of #Europe: 🎯 "This exaggerated welfare state – beyond necessary solidarity – has been detrimental in two ways. First, more money is spent than is sustainably available, and worse still, too much is expected from the state, resulting in the abandonment of self-responsibility. In this context, people seduced by expediency have started to exchange #personal #freedoms, #critical #thinking and their #identity for an #illusion of #security." This brings to mind Franklin's famous words: "Those who would give up essential #liberty, to purchase a little temporary #safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." 🗽 🎯 "#Free societies worldwide are currently challenged by autocratic systems. A society not only ignoring, but actively dismantling and ridiculing its own identity will not prevail. In order to preserve the essential values of #freedom and self-determination, it is not enough to resist autocrats abroad; it is also necessary to protect and nurture identity at home."

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