With an eye on the upcoming European elections, Resetdoc reopens the debate on the European Union and its future with an essay by Jürgen Habermas, written a year ago when sociologist Wolfgang Streeck’s book Gekaufte Zeit (Buying Time) was published. Habermas’ essay marks the beginning of a true Europa-Streit, a controversy on Europe, in which the German philosopher accuses the European Left of having never moved beyond nostalgic positions and of not being able to firmly addressing the Right and the Centre’s populist trends. The essay is introduced by Luca Corchia, who summarizes the controversy between the two authors contextualizing it within the debate on Europe, which, although still defective in the large arenas of state and party politics, is instead spreading in magazines, newspapers and books throughout the continent.