The New Pact for Europe project is an initiative that aims to promote a transnational, Europe-wide debate on the future of Europe. In its first report, New Pact for Europe has identified five strategic options for the European Union: going back to basics, consolidating past achievements, moving ahead ambitiously, leaping forward and changing the more or less EU logic altogether. At this conference, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy provided his insights on the desirability of these five options, and talked about the deeper, wider political crisis that is plaguing Europe at the moment.