This essay explores the key aspects of the European form of government and the imperial political structure, continuously critically examining the current structure of the European Union. The main focus centers on the crucial and now unavoidable question of whether the European Treaties need reform after the recent crises of the past decades and the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, to enhance the Union’s governance and protect European democracy and citizens’ fundamental rights. Every effort to define the European system still seems inadequate today, just as the imperial idea appears, to the author, insufficient to describe a system that remains inherently sui generis. Developing military capabilities, reorganizing European policies rationally, strengthening the internal market and the Union’s competitiveness through its own economic and industrial strategies, and initiating concrete institutional reforms are essential steps that can no longer be delayed if European integration is to advance – and even deepen – to establish a truly sovereign European political entity.