Europe, both as a common value and as a common good, reserves both a conceptualization and a reality, being still relevant, even more so in this European Union present furrowed by crisis and war, but animated by new “banner concepts“ intended to give confidence and outline a horizon of trust in the future, such as, more recently, the term “resilience“. At the same time, such concepts (e.g. “resilience“, “convergence“, “sustainability“) are linked to concrete practical concerns for the quality of present and future European life, channelling it towards the development target as precisely as possible, although such concepts are also intended to give a soft ideological coherence, in some instances with a propagandistic emphasis, of the contemporary European civic life.