Sixty years after the Treaty of Rome, signed on March 25, 1957, the European Union is “the most incredible political invention of modern history.”
But it is incomplete, threatened by its internal demons and external adversaries. Europe is a story of blood and reconciliation, of prosperity and unfinished dreams.
Europe carries within it the tragic memory of dictatorships and divisions but also a shared imagination and culture. Cinema and archival images are there to remind us of this. European identity exists beyond governments and bureaucracies. Its embodiment too, carried today by the Erasmus generation and the people of European citizens.
Today, the dysfunctions of the Union and sovereigntist pressures represent a peril but also a historical opportunity for a revival and to demand more Europe, now!
