The article explores whether Europe can overcome the dominance of American and Chinese tech giants and authoritarian tendencies in the economy and AI, with Bologna Mayor Matteo Lepore proposing a plan for change.

Matteo Lepore, the centre-left Mayor of Bologna, has been assigned a security escort after receiving numerous online threats. The threats followed his organization of a demonstration demanding truth about the case of Abderrahim Fakir, a Moroccan man whose death sparked controversy.