European institutions have the great quality of embodying and assuring the continuity and stability of the European project. For this reason, the Belgian crisis will have but a limited impact on the organization of the rotating Presidency which is held by Belgium for the next six months. The program, prepared in advance, can proceed without too much mishap, for the Ministers presiding over the Sectoral Councils can rely on the Commission and the now stable Presidency of the European Council. There are, however, moments of history where one would like some small detail to slow the process down so as to provide time to develop the perspective necessary to carry out and to wholly take in the exceptional character of the period that the Union is going through. The European Council in June should adopt the so-called "Europe 2020" strategy, a strategy of growth for the EU over the next ten years. In parallel, a working group presided over by H. Van Rompuy is working on the question of economic governance while, at the same time, others consider the subject of the relaunch of the Internal Market following the publication of the Monti report. Shortly, the budgetary negotiations that will determine the financial perspectives of the Union for the period 2014-2020 will commence. The unprecedented economic crisis and its social consequences on the one hand, and the necessary transition towards a low-carbon economy on the other, set a context which should lead European decision makers to consolidate these different negotiation processes towards a common vision, a veritable Strategy for the European economy, one that the totality of actors and citizens can make their own.