TIRANA, Oct 23 /ATA/ – The College of Europe in Tirana will raise the leaders of tomorrow that will unite Europe, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her remarks at the ceremony of opening the academic year in Tirana on Wednesday.
“Today marks a new beginning for all of you. New friends, new city, new dreams, but this ceremony is also much more than the opening of a new academic year or a new campus. Because the College of Europe is much more than an ordinary university,” von der Leyen said.
When our continent still lay in ruins after World War II, a group of European pioneers came up with a visionary idea: Let us build an academy, to raise the leaders of tomorrow, that will unite Europe – a
Von der Leyen declared that the European family is preparing to enlarge.
“Once again, we are at a watershed moment for Europe. And once again, our family is preparing for a reunification,” she added.
The EC President commented on the progress of the accession negotiations, adding that all the clusters could open within next year.
“Just last week, for instance, Albania’s accession negotiations to join our Union have entered a new phase. Together, we opened the cluster on fundamentals and we discussed that if everything is done properly, all the clusters on accession negotiations could open within end of next year,” she said.
/r.e/a.f/u.sh/
