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Happy 9th of May, my fellow Europeans.
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In the aftermath of WWII, on this day in 1950 the then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the Schuman Declaration in which he urged European nations, France and Germany above all, to pool their cool and steel production to create a common area of peace. Little could he know of what Europe would be 68 years later, that is the largest single market in the world and an incredibly competitive innovative economy. But Europe is much more than money, as it is a common area of and for peace and security, values that are, alas, becoming more and more underrated, a common area of rights and justice in a world where they’re hard to find, a common area of innovation where knowledge and access to it are free, but most importantly it’s an area of people: 24 languages spoken in 28 countries where half a billion people live, each of us as different in our own ideas and dreams as similar in our shared history, people that are free to travel, to work, to study, to bring their experiences across the Union, thus creating a shared area of freedom. None of this would have been achievable if we hadn’t been together putting aside selfishness and nationalism, things that are just absurd and anachronistic; it would be an insult to our past not to seek for a common future. So, happy Europe Day! 😊 🇪🇺
“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity” ~ Robert Schuman
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💙💛 HAPPY EUROPE DAY 💛💙
Today’s Europe Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which laid the foundation for the European Union we have today.
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i love to remind people that i love languages even when i’m just laying in bed 😂
Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 🇳🇱 July-August 2018
🌷 Fun fact: Dutch people often use nicknames for cities: Amersfoort is Amo, Amsterdam A’dam, Apeldoorn A’doorn...
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#justEUthings
- If you can’t drive there in less than 6 hours - take a plane
- Two kinds of people: 1. Very intense about Eurovision and 2. Pretend not to be Very intense about Eurovision
- Flying Tiger is not a shop - it’s an Experience
- Making memes about EU banning memes
- Random bomb diffusals
- Digging up Roman ruins during construction work.
- Accidentally walking into another country for groceries
- Commissar Rex re-runs
- “Hhhmmm we hadn’t had a major war in over 70 years, weird…”
Please add more
dee-the-witch
- longing for Italy
- traveling by train 24/7
- German quality™
- every summer is simulation of the Migration period
- hating capital cities
- making fun of United Kingdom
- borders mean nothing
- every state has at least one special dog breed
- is this 600 years old or 60?
- Roman roads are the best roads
- underage drinking
- brutalism right next to baroque
- war memorials on every corner (lots of death people everywhere)
- forgotten city catacombs
- wanting change but not knowing where to start
- complaining
- antic obsession
- “built from EU funds” signs everywhere
- hating all the neighbors but hating USA more
akanekid
Also
- Kinder eggs
- Football (soccer for the us readers to understand)
- Constructions halted for months due to finding ruins and/or skeletons from a forgotten graveyard.
- Ghost stories everywhere.
- Enchanted wells everywhere
- Roundabouts.
- Being near the border and suddenly getting a “Welcome to [country name]” text from your phone provider cause you’ve got better reception from their cell phone towers
- Going shopping in another country when it’s a public holiday in your country but not in theirs
- Refuelling your car in another country cause the gas is cheaper there
- If you never travelled outside of Europe, you either don’t have a passport or the one you have expired in like 2005
- Hearing about the random bomb diffusals and being low-key sad cause they never find one in your city and you want to have that evacuation experience too
- Summer hits in a language you don’t understand but they’re absolute bangers
i don't know if i will ever get a passport😂
📚i’ve been to my local library and found a super recent swedish grammar book 🇸🇪and a 1986 multilingual vocabulary book including 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸🇵🇹🇩🇰🇳🇱🇬🇷( the languages of EU🇪🇺 countries at the time) i might scan some pages if anybody is interested!