As a European, I'm living these times of uncertainty with great apprehension like many of my colleagues/friends/peers.

If I look at Europe today, I don't see much left of the Great Europe from the past, where human and technological progress was thriving while the rest of the world was watching.

I feel European, but to be honest with you, sometimes with a tiny shade of embarrassment.

Damn, we lost our prestige from the past, the 2008 economic crisis almost nuked our present, and our future has every color in it but not pink.

And yes, I like to complain (a lot), because I think we could do so much better just by being more confident in what we could achieve as a real cultural and political Union, not just as an economic one.

But on these days I felt different.

This is a time when another great global crisis is knocking at the world's door, and I just saw Europe deciding to try to stand on its back after a bad fight with our greatest ally of the last century.

It's not an easy time to be European, but I want to renew my commitment to be one right now, especially by looking at the dark clouds on the horizon.

In many years we might turn back and look at this moment as one where we forged something great: a new, hopefully bright future for Europe and its people through the storm that has yet to come.