Europe Day celebration: EU opens the doors to european citizenship
“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.”
venerdì, May 7th, 2010
On 9 May 1950 Robert Schuman, french foreign affairs Minister, laid the foundations of the European Union calling for a Europe built on concrete results, starting with solidarity. A few years later, Schuman became the first president of European Parliament.
In spite of all the efforts that the European Union, its institutions and the stakeholders involved in the construction of a European identity (Member States, national regional and local authorities, political parties, NGO’s and organised civil society) have made throughout the years to involve European citizens and to stimulate «feelings» of belonging, the Europe of today cannot yet consider itself the Europe of the citizens.
