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European Commission EUROPEAN COMMISSION [CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY] José Manuel Durão Barroso President of the European Commission Speech by President Barroso: Moving towards a conscience of Europe College of Europe, Natolin, 09 May 2014 Dear Rector of the College of Europe, Jörg Monar, Madame Vice rector of the College of Europe in Natolin, Ewa Ośniecka, Head of the European Commission Representation in Poland, Ewa Synowiec, President of the College of Europe Foundation, Jacek Saryusz- Wolski, my dear colleague from the European Commission, Janusz Lewandowski. And now I apologise that I cannot mention all of you, all Authorities, Ministers, Members of Parliament, Representatives of the region, Excellencies, Ambassadors, Dear Students, dear friends, First. let me tell you that I am indeed very pleased to be back to Natolin. Usually. all my speeches start by saying: it is a pleasure to be with you. But this time it is really true. It is wonderful to be back to the Natolin campus of the College of Europe, especially as we celebrate Europe day, Schuman day, but also because we are celebrating Poland and the accession of Poland to the European Union. We are celebrating this great movement of enlargement, of the reunification of Europe ten years ago. And we are celebrating also this great institution, the College of Europe. And to show to you how sincere I am about my pleasure, I brought you one thing. It was just two days ago that we have launched in Brussels a communication that shows what the European Commission, the second Commission I have been leading, has achieved. It is called "Europe – open, united and stronger". It is published in the 24 languages. Here I have the Portuguese version. And all of us contributed. And for instance, Janusz Lewandowski is here showing of course the importance of his personal contribution to this great historic agreement on the budget on the next 7 years. I also had to put some of my contributions at the beginning. And I have chosen, together with other beautiful photos, for instance the G8 summit in Camp David, also the meeting when I was receiving, with my colleagues, the Nobel Peace Prize for the European Union, I have chosen another photo, precisely of Natolin. And so it is myself in the middle of some of your students in 2011 – I hope now they have good jobs, serving the European Union. And the reason why I chose personally this photo is because I think that these students, their joyful, confident expressions are indeed a great inspiration for us in Europe. And I am happy to be here in this College, because the history of the College of Europe and the history of European integration are indeed two sides of the same coin. And in many aspects we can even consider that the College of Europe is a frontrunner of the European Union, not only as we know it today, but as it might become tomorrow. As early as the Hague Congress in May 1948, which was convened with the specific objective of promoting a united Europe; the Spanish writer, historian, and diplomat Salvador de Madariaga proposed the establishment of a college where university graduates from many different countries, some only a short while before at war with each other, could study and live together. SPEECH/14/368 Just two years later, the College of Europe was opened in Bruges by the great intellectual Henri Brugmans, its first Rector. And four decades later, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the campus of Natolin was opened as early as 1992 that is 12 years before the EU's biggest enlargement. This is, I think, a revealing illustration of the power of ideas and culture in the construction of European unity. The aspiration to European unity is indeed as old the history of Europe itself. It has suffered many setbacks but it proved to be indestructible. It has been tirelessly promoted by European intellectuals over the centuries. Ultimately the European integration process turned this intellectual aspiration into a political, economic and institutional reality. I fully appreciate that the current promotion of the College of Europe has chosen to be named after the French philosopher Voltaire, who defended the vision of a European Respublica literaria where all European intellectuals could meet and exchange ideas on the ground of a shared belief in the values of the Enlightenment. I very much appreciated that in 2011, when I came here the first time, the promotion was Marie Skłodowska-Curie, a great Polish and European figure that has shown the importance of science and knowledge on our continent. So these ideals of culture and science are something that we should keep alive. At a time when European fragmentation and the emergence of new dividing lines in Europe are widely discussed, you send a clear and powerful message on European unity. In fact, in September 2011, when I last visited this campus, the Bronisław Geremek European Civilisation Chair had just been inaugurated. And I remember that on this occasion I recalled that Professor Geremek, paraphrasing the Italian Massimo D’Azeglio, used to say, "We have made Europe, now we have to make Europeans." This is exactly what the College of Europe has been contributing to for more than half a century now. Indeed the purpose of the College of Europe is not only for students from all over Europe to study together but also to live together. To study together is key to promote excellence, to stimulate exchange of ideas. Besides the specific case of the College of Europe, programmes to promote transnational learning mobility, such as the Erasmus programme or the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships, have proven to be a great success, helping people to acquire the new skills that will be needed for the jobs of tomorrow. It also helps to better grasp the manifold and interrelated challenges of today's globalised world. Just now, because I was in Florence this morning, I came here through Frankfurt. And when I was arriving here in Warsaw, two young men in their 30s came to me and said: "Thank you Mr Barroso, we are Polish, thank you for coming to Warsaw". I have never seen them before, of course. They said: "We were Erasmus students. And it is so important what the European Union has made for us and for this Erasmus generation ". I hope that this news has come and that they will see that I did not forget what they told me. I think that this kind of institution can contribute to shaping a European identity based on unity in diversity, because our unity is not an idea of uniformisation. It helps to be true to Immanuel Kant's principle that the imperatives of morality be "universalized" so as to apply to all, or his own words: "Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only." This is at the core of the European values, of humanism, the idea that nothing is more important that the dignity of each human being – a man, a woman or a child. And this contributes to forging a deep sense of togetherness and solidarity. And this is why the European Union is so important: the centrality of the individual, the human person, solidarity and shared destiny. 2 We all know that solidarity is word that has a special resonance here in Poland; the country where in the Gdansk shipyard, under the banner of Solidarność, started a wave of freedom that ended up by overcoming oppression, liberating millions of people, not only in Poland, but across Central and Eastern Europe and ultimately opening the way to the reunification of Europe. And I am so pleased to be with you today as we also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement. This was arguably the last and decisive step to wipe the scars of the Iron Curtain off the map of Europe. As Pope John Paul II said then, "Europe was able again to breathe with both lungs." Enlargement to the Eastern and Central European countries has helped to correct grave historical injustice. And more generally the EU enlargement policy has proven to be one of the most important instruments for European security, extending the area of peace and security, liberty and democracy and naturally, prosperity. It has strengthened the European Union's position as a global economic and political player. Enlargement has made Europe more stable and stronger. And Poland is clearly a case in point. The European Union has greatly benefited from Poland's accession. And let me stress in particular Poland's deep commitment to the European Union cause that has proved to be a powerful asset for the European Union as we had to face the worst financial, economic and social crisis since the start of European integration. It was Jerzy Buzek who became first president of the European Parliament from the so called new Member States. It was thanks to a very efficient blend of pragmatism and European enthusiasm, the 2011 Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union which helped to find concrete solutions to move forward a stronger, more united and open Europe. Fundamental decisions were taken then on the strengthening of European economic governance that laid the foundations on which any further reforms will be built. Everything was done to defend the stability of the euro area while preserving the integrity of the European Union as a whole. And it was also under the Polish Presidency that we signed the Accession Treaty of our 28th Member State, Croatia.
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