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Happy #EuropeDay everyone - though this year is the 70th anniversary, most people have never been told what Europe Day is or what it remembers
To remedy that, here is a thread all about Robert Schuman and the declaration of 9th May 1950 /1
To remedy that, here is a thread all about Robert Schuman and the declaration of 9th May 1950 /1
First off, who was Robert Schuman? Well as a founding father of the European Union, you would have struggled to write a more apt background. /2 
He was born in Luxembourg in 1886. His mother was from the area and his father was from Lorraine, born French but taking German citizenship after the transfer of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1871. /3
Thanks Margrethe Vestager for your message for #EuropeDay2020.
"70 years ago, Robert Schuman asked Europeans to make a promise, a commitment, to turn away from centuries of bloodstained history ... 1/4
@vestager
#message4EU #Europatag2020
Program: bit.ly/europeday2020
"70 years ago, Robert Schuman asked Europeans to make a promise, a commitment, to turn away from centuries of bloodstained history ... 1/4
@vestager
#message4EU #Europatag2020
Program: bit.ly/europeday2020
2/4 ... and to stand side by side in adversity. We still have our differences, but we know that we need each other. And we may awake in the morning as nationalists, but we have learned once again that we can only help ourselves by helping each other; ...
3/4 ... we end each day as Europeans. For two generations, Europe has kept that promise. In uncertain times, it gives us the confidence that, however hard things get, we make it through together. ...
