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Opening Speech of Commissioner Kovács
Ladies and Gentleman,When I was at your age Europe was a sharply and deeply divided continent.
Cold war and hostility prevailed between the western democracies and the Soviet bloc countries. There was no real communication between the countries with parliamentary democracy, with the rule of law with market economy and the countries with the rule of one single party, with command economy.
For some 40 years people in Europe were living under the threat of a third world war – a nuclear war in which the whole human civilisation could have perished.
Now it is all over. The Berlin wall has collapsed and the two German states have reunited. The Council of Europe has been enlarged and today it covers the whole continent.
To read more, please check:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/commission_barroso/kovacs/speeches/european_youth_parliament.pdf
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