"Today on Europe Day we commemorate the laying of the foundation for the European Union through the declaration in 1950 by Robert Schuman, the French foreign minister, in Paris on the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. Since then, the community of European states has achieved excellent results in its mission to maintain peace and security in Europe", Vice-Chancellor Hubert Gorbach declared.
Gorbach said that today, 56 years on and living in the Europe of 25, people generally accepted and had respect for this idea and knew that the founders of European unity were right. "The European Union is the world’s biggest, most successful peace project and we must never forget that security and stability are the cornerstones of the European Union, its economic success and its citizens' wellbeing.” The European Union had to be a union for the people, he continued, and every European should endeavour to preserve their country's typical qualities, their cultural roots, their way of life and their language, but still feel at ease in their 'European home'.
Gorbach concluded by saying we all have the "responsibility to work together in the European Union in the spirit of the founding fathers and to pass on their vision to our children and grandchildren who, we hope, will also be able to grow up and live in peace in future".
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