Jean Monnet

Turkey is demanding that Greece not ask for help from others and not involve the European Union in their disputes. This was recently repeated by the foreign and defense ministers of Greece's eastern neighbor.

Romania has failed in the 30 years since the fall of communism to be in the engine of the European Union, Romania's former Prime Minister Petre Roman, also a former foreign minister, told AGERPRES on Friday, adding that his confidence in the European design "remains one hundred percent." On the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, Roman said that the question is whether the battle again

Romania's former Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean says the Schuman Declaration of May 9, 1950, because of its symbolism, is more valid than ever, because, given that during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic period the EU has shown that "it does not fully operate" as a united, solidary body.

Indeed, yesterday, when we were at Bazoches, there was a very nice quote from Jean Monnet, who has said: 'I am not pessimistic, I am not optimistic, I am determined.'

Emmanuel Macron's initiative for a European revival expresses the French president's need to make his mark early as a reformer not only in his country but in the rest of the European Union as well. It is also part of a long line of French proposals to establish peace on the continent through the cooperation of its states.

Excitement was buzzing at Yale University for the student-organized European Student Conference. The conference coordinators had reviewed initial policy papers and had monitored online discussions, while the organizing team had been working hard to welcome EU policymakers, prominent professors, distinguished keynote speakers and a driven body of student participants.