Nils Redeker is an optimist. He has no other choice. There are enough people who say why something can’t be done, he says. „There is nothing more pointless than a cynical think tank“, says the Vice Director of the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin. Founded in 2014, the think tank is a Berlin-based research institution affiliated with the private Hertie School in Berlin. The center combines scientific research in the field of European policy with the development of concrete ideas for the future.