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Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, European liberal society is being subjected to internal and external tensions (demographic transition, climate change, populism, Brexit), which call into question the liberalism at its foundations: society’s autonomy and independence from power. Now, in a multipolar world where the United States and China have chosen the Pacific as a place of confrontation to establish their reign as the major global power of the twenty-first century, Europe has a card to play as a power of liberty and peace. The four “freedoms” considered fundamental by the European Union, the free movement of goods, people, capital, and services, establish a Europe of the “Ancien Regime,” in the sense of Tocqueville, in order to establish a legal, economic, and of course political monopoly. Censorship reigns over innovative minds. The priority is to strengthen the pillars of liberal society. The autonomy of the European Union and its capacity to project itself must be achieved through the reform of its institutions and the reversal of powers: the reduction of the number of representatives of the institutions to less than one hundred directly elected members, of which seven strategists are the permanent representatives of the European Council in a European governance program responsible for the development of liberal society and common goods (access to knowledge, preservation of cultural and environmental properties, defense of the European territory). The inversion of powers must be founded on new freedoms: Europe must emancipate itself through a collective effort that gives every citizen access to a roof over their heads, care, and regular and balanced nutrition, a new “Europadomus”-type freedom. It must emancipate itself from the multinational corporations controlling information and establish an internet of knowledge and understanding by bringing together and putting into perspective the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers from all over the world, while providing them with equitable remuneration for their contribution to the common good, a new “Europasapiens”-type freedom. Finally, Europe cannot set itself the objective of sustainable development without granting all living beings a new protective legal recognition and thus declaring the Rights of Man, the Citizen, and Living Species. The disappearance of wild animals and other invertebrates jeopardizes biodiversity and the freedom for future generations to live in harmony with nature. The new “Europavitae” freedom leaves spaces without activity and human presence throughout Europe.