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MEGA Initiative — Declaration for European Democracy and International Law

Make Europe Great Again, Make Earth Great Again

I dream that one day, in the face of the return of retreat,
of brute force and privatized truths,
Europe, Germany, France and the United Kingdom
will rise together to say :democracy is not a weakness,
truth is not negotiable,
and the rule of law deserves to be defended.

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MEGA DECLARATION — UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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MEGA Initiative — Founding Declaration · Version 1.0 · January 2026

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Preamble to the MEGA Declaration

I dream that one day, in a world worn down by fear and confusion,
three leaders rise together,
and speak not to flatter, not to promise the impossible,
but to take responsibility.

I dream that one day, at the rostrum of the United Nations,
we stop confusing prudence with immobility, neutrality with abdication, peace with powerlessness.

I dream of a speech that clearly states that freedom is not the absence of rules,
that democracy does not survive without truth,
and that law, without capacity, becomes a prayer without effect.

I dream that one day, Europe stops defining itself by what it fears,
and begins once again to define itself by what it dares to protect.I dream of a speech that looks at the world as it is,
without naïveté, without cynicism, and that affirms that force can be contained,
provided it is framed, assumed, and subject to the rule of law.

I dream of a speech that states that innovation is not the privatization of the world,
that technology is not sovereignty,
and that democracy is not rented by subscription.I dream of a speech that reminds us that without shared facts,
there is no longer any majority — only tribes,
that without method, truth dissolves into narratives,
and that without truth, no free society endures for long.

I dream of a speech that finally accepts to pay the price of credibility:
to renounce ambiguities, paralyzing privileges,
and the comforts inherited from a world that no longer exists.I dream of a speech that states that
protecting peace sometimes requires sanctuarizing,
that deciding is not oppressing,
and that history does not forgive powerlessness.I dream that one day, this speech will be delivered.In the meantime, it is written.

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MEGA DECLARATION — UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Joint Alternating Address – France / Germany / United Kingdom

I — Foundations: responsibility, law, legitimacy

[FR] — Opening: the debt to the future

Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Before speaking of power, institutions, or security, I want to speak of something older than our treaties : responsibility.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote:
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”This is not a formula. It is a mandate.Saint-Exupéry died on a wartime mission, off the coast of Marseille, in the cockpit of an American P-38.
This detail is not trivial: it speaks to a profound truth. Our history is made of solidarities, shared sacrifices, and loyalties.We are not here to deny this history. We are here to prevent it from becoming powerless nostalgia.If we speak today in the first person, it is not to personalize this moment.
It is to assume responsibility.
Because a founding act cannot be delegated.

[DE] — Law is not a luxury: it is peace

This forum exists for a simple idea: that law must contain force.
My country knows the cost of the collapse of rules, when law becomes decorative and power believes itself legitimate on its own.
We know that a society can appear stable, while being dangerously vulnerable.
I therefore say this with gravity:
International law is not a moral add-on.
It is the practical condition of peace.

[UK] — Powerlessness destroys legitimacy

Crises are not new.
What is new is the speed at which they turn into chaos when institutions become unable to act.
When an organization can no longer decide, it is not only bypassed: it is unlearned.
And when the world unlearns the rule, it relearns force.

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II — The world as it is: threats and dependencies

[FR] — Hybrid threats: sovereignty has become systemic

Threats are no longer only military.They are economic, technological, informational.
They move through payments, cables, satellites, logistical flows, narratives.A state can now be defeated without capitulating:
if its infrastructures are paralyzed,
if its flows are cut,
if its society is fractured.Sovereignty is no longer sectoral. It is systemic.

[DE] — German lucidity: industry alone no longer protects

We long believed that industrial power was sufficient to guarantee stability.We have learned — sometimes too late — that an industry without sovereignty becomes dependence,
and that dependence can become a lever of external domination.That is why we state this clearly:
industry must serve a political project, or it ceases to protect.

[UK] — Our DNA is the sea and trade, not withdrawal

Let us be clear: what we are proposing is not withdrawal.The United Kingdom is a maritime and trading power.
Our security depends on sea lanes, ports, straits, cables, and the fluidity of trade.We have no vocation to close the world.
We have a vocation to prevent it from being closed through coercion.

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III — MEGA: a political architecture for stability

[FR] — MEGA: the founding act

Today, we announce a political act: MEGA.MEGA is not a slogan.
MEGA is an architecture.Make Europe Great Again.
Make Earth Great Again.A capable Europe for a stable world.

[DE] — Make Earth Great Again: without enforcement, there is no rule

Make Earth Great Again means refusing a return to a world in which aggression becomes profitable.And I say this with the simplicity of law:
without enforcement, there is no legal rule.
There is only an empty text.Rules exist only if they carry a price.
This is not vengeance.
It is the condition of stability.

UK] — UN: the veto cannot be a license for war

The right of veto was designed as a mechanism of balance. It too often becomes a mechanism of paralysis.And I say this as the head of government of a country that holds this right:
no institutional privilege is sacred if it prevents the protection of peoples.We therefore propose a clear rule:
the veto cannot block international action when it concerns:

When the Council is paralyzed, legitimacy must return to the General Assembly.
And I add this: what we expect from the United Nations, we impose upon ourselves.

[DE] — EU: democracy is not immobility

This coherence binds us.Permanent unanimity, on vital matters, is not a superior form of democracy.
It can become a right of blockage that endangers the majority.
Deciding is not oppressing.
Deciding is assuming responsibility.

[FR] — A Europe that sanctuarizes does not escalate: it prevents

Make Europe Great Again does not mean escalation.
It means prevention.Peace is not maintained by incantation.
It is maintained because aggression is deterred.And yes: sanctuarizing our territory is a condition of freedom.

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IV —Democracy, Truth, Freedom: The Foundation

[FR] — MEGA Is Also Social: Returning to Original Liberalism

MEGA is not only a strategic architecture.
It is a political project — and therefore a social one.Liberalism was born as a doctrine of freedom and dignity.
Tocqueville understood this: a democracy does not endure solely through its laws,
but through the vitality of its social bond,
through trust among citizens,
through the ability of the greatest number to project themselves into the future.
Its drift into ultra-liberalism has concentrated wealth, weakened the middle classes, and fed fear.
Yet a democracy gripped by anxiety becomes vulnerable.
And a vulnerable democracy becomes manipulable.
MEGA corrects this drift:
the sovereignty we are building must generate growth,
and that growth must be shared,
otherwise there can be neither stability nor lasting freedom.

[DE] — German Industry in the Service of the Common Good: Without Appropriation

I want to be explicit.
German industrial power will be placed at the service of MEGA without ambiguity, and without any intent of national appropriation.
We are putting concrete mechanisms on the table:

Our industry becomes an instrument of European sovereignty — because without sovereignty, industry reverts to dependence.

[UK] — United Kingdom Assets in the Service of MEGA: Sea, Flows, Space, Continuity

European security is not determined solely on land.
It is shaped along maritime routes, ports, straits, undersea cables, logistics.It is also shaped in space: satellites, communications, navigation, observation, early warning.And we already have a major asset:
European space — the ESA and our shared capabilities — in the service of our sovereignty.
Within this framework, the United Kingdom enters MEGA as a pillar.We place at the service of this project:

Because a continent can be paralysed without invasion if it is cut off from the world,
and because a stable world is not a closed one:
it is a world in which trade is possible without extortion.

[FR] — Against the Return of Nation-States as Trading Posts

I want to add an essential warning.
We do not want to see the return of nation-states as trading posts.
A trading-post state is not merely a private territory.
It is a world in which sovereignty is fragmented into enclaves, in which citizenship becomes a subscription,
and in which the law dissolves into terms of service.And yet, we already see this temptation at work.
When private actors claim to organise security, digital identity, currency,
the public space of expression, even entire territories,
outside of any democratic control.When access to the public space depends on a platform,
when a rule can be modified unilaterally,
when an account can be suspended without effective recourse,
then it is no longer merely a service:
it is a sovereign function that has been privatised.This future is not progress.
It is a regression disguised as modernity.
A return to a logic of extraction,
in which a few emancipate themselves from the common rule
while the greatest number remains exposed.MEGA is also a response to this:
we affirm that innovation must serve democracy —never replace it.
And that popular sovereignty will not be replaced
by the sovereignty of capital.

[DE] — Pluralism of Ideas, Unity of Principles

I want to avoid a misunderstanding.
MEGA is not a project of single-minded thinking. A democracy does not require unanimity of opinions.
It requires agreement on a few foundations:

Within this framework, pluralism is not a problem: it is a strength.

[UK] — Freedom Exists Within a Framework: Magna Carta, Enlightenment, Responsibility

Our European heritage carries a constant: freedom is limited power.In the United Kingdom, this idea has a founding symbol: the Magna Carta.
It reminds us that no authority stands above the law,
and that power must be held to account.This requirement then runs through the whole of European thought. With the Enlightenment, it becomes a complete architecture:
public reason, debate, the common law.And Montesquieu would formulate it with uncompromising clarity:
the separation of powers,
to prevent capture, arbitrariness, the domination of one alone.From this architecture flows a responsibility:
the responsibility to exercise one’s freedom without destroying that of others, the responsibility of speech in the public space, and the responsibility of power to punish only what is proven,
according to rules that are known, supervised, and independent.For freedom is not impunity. Nor is it arbitrariness.
Freedom is an architecture: it protects citizens as much as it limits the State.

[FR] — Freedom of Expression: Framework, Dignity, Law

Freedom of expression is a condition of democracy.But freedom is not the right to deny the dignity of others.
Incitement to hatred is not an opinion.
Intimidation is not a debate.
The justification of violence through racial, gender-based or origin-based discrimination is not an opinion: it is an offence — sometimes a crime.Democracy protects criticism, satire and opposition.
It does not protect dehumanisation.

[DE] — Antisemitism Is Not an Opinion

As Germans, we say this without equivocation:
antisemitism is not an opinion.
It is hatred.
And hatred is not a debate: it is a weapon.A democracy does not survive if it allows to flourish what seeks to destroy it.

[UK] — Habeas Corpus: Freedom Is Not Chaos

And we add this: our idea of freedom is not a slogan.It comes from a guarantee: habeas corpus.
The principle that a State must justify its actions, answer before a judge, and be limited by the rule.This is what freedom means:
to protect the weak against the arbitrariness of the strong.

[FR] — Shared Truth: Without It, There Is No Democracy

We must state a simple truth: democracy does not rest solely on ballots.
It rests on something more fragile: shared facts.
Without a shared truth, there is no longer a majority:
only tribes.

[UK] — When Truth Is Privatized, Democracy Is Sold

And we must name another danger: the privatization of the public sphere.
When the space of debate depends on private infrastructures, truth can become a product.And when truth becomes a product, democracy becomes negotiable.
We do not want a world in which popular sovereignty dissolves into platforms.

[FR] — Science: A Method of Peace in Disagreement

So how can democracy be protected without sliding into single-minded thinking?Through a very simple idea: method.Truth is not a belief. It is not what suits one side.
It is what resists our preferences.As Étienne Klein puts it, there exists a taste for truth — and it must be cultivated.
But a taste for truth is not enough: discipline is required.
And that discipline is science: not as an ideology, but as a method of doubt, proof, and correction.Science is a method of peace in disagreement.

[DE] — Without Method, Everything Becomes Narrative

Without method, everything becomes narrative.
And when everything becomes narrative, the most violent narrative prevails.A democracy does not fall only when it loses an election.
It falls when it loses reality.

[FR / DE / UK] — Truth, Science, Democracy

Without a shared truth, there is no longer a majority: only tribes.
When truth is privatized, democracy is sold.
Science is not an opinion. It is a method of peace in disagreement.
Without method, everything becomes narrative.
And the most violent narrative prevails.
Without a shared truth, there can be no stable democracy.
Without stable democracy, there can be no common project.
Without a common project, there is no MEGA.

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V — From Words to Action: Timeline and Commitment

[FR] — France: Renouncing the Comfort of Ambiguity (Extended Deterrence)

For this discourse to be credible, it must come at a price.The United Kingdom accepts calling into question a global institutional privilege.
Germany relinquishes the illusion that industry alone is sufficient and commits to placing it at the service of the common good.And France, today, renounces the comfort of ambiguity.We state this clearly:
France is prepared to evolve its posture and to explicitly extend the protection of its deterrence to its European partners who commit themselves to this common political act.This is a grave decision.
It is taken with lucidity.
It is taken for one reason: peace requires ultimate guarantees that are legible and credible.And I add this, without equivocation:
France, too, holds the right of veto on the Security Council.
And we say it with the same level of exigency as that which we uphold here:
what we demand of the world, we apply to ourselves.

[DE] — Power and Limits: What Sets Us Apart

Law needs a shield, and the shield needs law.Our project unites the two: capacity and legitimacy.
Deterrence and rule.
Power and limits.We are building a force to prevent war, not to impose it.

[UK — Free Seas, Secure Flows: Security Is Global

European security is not determined solely on land.It is determined along maritime routes, through straits, ports, cables, and logistics.
We will protect the flows that sustain our economies.Because a continent can be paralysed without invasion — if it is cut off from the world.

[UK] — The World Reads Our Timelines, Not Our Intentions

Our adversaries do not read our intentions. They read our timelines.They do not look at our principles. They look at our ability to translate them into action.In a hard world, slowness becomes a signal.

[FR] — MEGA TIMELINE: 100 Days / 24 Months / 2030

We are announcing a timeline now.Because a doctrine without a timeline is nothing more than a speech.

[DE] — Method Principle: MEGA Core + Circles

MEGA moves forward in circles.
A MEGA Core, formed by willing states, decides quickly on what is essential:
collective security, critical infrastructure, protection of flows.Others may join as soon as they accept the common political contract.
No one is excluded — but no one can block collective survival.Openness, yes.
Paralysis, no.

[UK] — Phase 1: 0–100 Days

In the first one hundred days, we undertake five actions:First, we create the MEGA Core,
and we adopt internal majority decision-making on defence, energy, cyber, and vital infrastructure.Second, we launch the Sovereignty Dividend:
any strategic procurement is conditional on transparency, value sharing, training, and employment.Third, we conduct a public audit of critical dependencies:
payments, cloud and data, semiconductors, munitions, energy.Fourth, we initiate the first coordinated orders for vital capabilities:
ground-based air defence, drones, cybersecurity, infrastructure protection.Fifth, at the United Nations, the United Kingdom and France jointly advance the limitation of the veto for major crimes and acts of aggression, and referral to the General Assembly when the Security Council is paralysed.

[FR] — Phase 2: 6–24 Months

Over the next twenty-four months, we deliver visible results.We launch multi-year procurement programmes:
munitions, air defence, air maintenance, cyber-defence.We organise distributed production and pooled stockpiles, to guarantee endurance over time.We deploy the first operational sovereign infrastructures:
European payment rails for administrations and critical businesses, a strategic cloud, reinforced cybersecurity.We establish a continuity coalition with Canada and Indo-Pacific partners:
maritime security, cable protection, cyber exercises, protection of flows.
And we strengthen democratic oversight:
regular audits, parliamentary scrutiny, anti-capture mechanisms.

[DE] — Phase 3 : 2030 Horizon

By the 2030 horizon, we aim for credible autonomy.The capacity to endure over time,
real industrial sovereignty,
effective cyber and space resilience,
and comprehensive protection of critical infrastructure.An open Europe, but robust:
open through circles of accession,
robust in the face of coercion and blackmail.And a world order upheld by rules that are finally defended,
because a rule without capacity is nothing more than a wish.

[UK] — Neutralisation of Blockages: Not Exclusion, Resilience

I want to say this clearly: neutralising blockages is not an act of authoritarianism.It is the opposite.
It is the protection of peoples.We do not fight illiberal drift by censoring citizens.
We fight it by removing the conditions that allow it to take hold:
social fear, powerlessness, loss of trust.And if a government chooses to violate fundamental rules —
free elections, independent justice, human dignity —
then it will not be excluded:
it will exclude itself.

[FR] — Open Europe: A Political Act

We repeat it:
Europe is not a geography.
Europe is a political act.And that act is open:
to those who want to build,
to those who want to defend the rule of law,
to those who choose a shared future over fragmentation.

[DE] — Final Warning: The Counter-Philosophy of the Enlightenment

We must be lucid:
a counter-philosophy is advancing.It despises equality.
It despises truth.
It treats democracy as a weakness to be corrected.We affirm the opposite:
democracy is our most demanding invention.And it will survive only if we defend it
through social cohesion,
through truth,
and through the rule of law.

[FR / DE / UK] — MEGA in the Face of Imperial Retrenchments

Let us be clear:
MEGA was not born in a vacuum.It is a response to a global movement
that advocates a return to the law of the strongest,
the fragmentation of alliances,
identity retreat,
and the substitution of law by force.This movement takes different names depending on the country.
It sometimes presents itself as a return to greatness.
It promises protection through isolation
and sovereignty through domination.We affirm the opposite.Greatness does not arise from withdrawal,
but from the capacity to cooperate without dissolving.
Sovereignty is not defended by destroying rules,
but by making them enforceable.
And the protection of peoples does not come from fear of the other,
but from the solidity of what is shared.MEGA is a response to these retrenchments.
Not against a country.
Not against a people.
But against a vision of the world
where force replaces law
and where democracy becomes an obstacle to be bypassed.

[UK] — Closing: A Simple Promise

not promise that it will be easy.
We promise that it will be done.Because the future does not wait for unanimity.
And because history does not forgive impotence.

[FR] — Conclusion: Returning to Saint-Exupéry

We end where we began.
We do not inherit the Earth.
We borrow it from our children.So we do what our time demands:
we stop being naïve, without becoming cynical.
We become capable.MEGA.
Make Europe Great Again.
Make Earth Great Again.

[DE] — Conclusion: Power Under Control

The force we are building is not an imperialism.
It is a discipline of survival.Limited power.
Protected law.
Non-negotiable dignity.Make Europe Great Again.
Make Earth Great Again.

[UK] — Conclusion: Free Seas, a Livable World

A livable world is a world
where flows remain free,
where rules hold,
where truth is not for sale.Make Europe Great Again.
Make Earth Great Again.We thank you.

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