61 years ago the Schuman declaration was the starting point of Europe as 
we know it today. You can find the full text of the declaration here 
<http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/9-may/decl_en.htm>. Comparing the status 
of Europe at the moment to today, we can only be happy with the progress 
that has been made so far. We can only gladly cheer "Happy Birthday Europe".

However, there is still a long way to go. Europe is still far from 
having open borders, both in the perception of physical borders, when 
talking about our brothers in Caucasus, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, 
Russia, even in the Balkans, but also about mental borders that we 
ourselves raise to others because they were placed in an "inferior" 
cultural, political, financial, ethnical or other environment.

AEGEE -- the European Students' Forum would like to remind to all 
relevant stakeholders that we still have a lot of work to do to create a 
real European Citizenship, not on a document, but in the mentality of 
all Europeans and to abolish prejudices across our continent.

Happy Birthday Europe! AEGEE wishes you to reach 100 years without any 
other war. May you be the Europe we all dream of by then!

AEGEE-Europe


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