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First, the fact that we are in Bulgaria today on the eve of NATO enlargement and on the eve of EU enlargement (which will not directly concern Bulgaria tomorrow, but will include Bulgaria in as short a time as possible) is probably the only good news we see in the world today. I have been for the last two years a professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, close to Warsaw, at the request of Jacques Delors and Bronislav Geremek, the former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. I have the privilege of having 120 post-graduate students—50 percent of them coming from the “New Europe”—and I can see in their eyes their happiness to have been born at that time, in that place. The privilege of late birth, if you want. It is in their eyes that I find the only hopeful signs in the world today. I am very happy to be the guest of the Rakovski College here in Sofia, and I want to thank you very much for your hospitality. Let me move on to less happy news. A little more than a week ago, on March 11, we realized in Europe that we too were at war. What was expressed after September 11—“we are all Americans”—was also spontaneously, emotionally expressed after March 11. We proclaimed, “We are all Spaniards,” and we deeply felt it, not only out of sympathy for a great European country but because we knew inside ourselves that we could be next. This was a threat on our civilization. It was a strike at our essence, and not at our performance. Madrid had been struck not because of the position of the Spanish Government on the war in Iraq, but simply because Spain is a liberal democracy. And just to confirm that position, there were threats made against France, before and after the event, supposedly because we have imposed a law regarding the Muslim veil. We are, more than ever, in the same boat, facing the same threat. And yet, we also know this: divisions between Europe and America seem to continue, even after March 11, 2004. Immediately after the event, you saw in the American papers a flurry of articles denouncing the so-called “axis of appeasement,” to condemn the “Munichois” attitude of the new Spanish government. Two days ago, you had demonstrations in the streets of Europe against the war in Iraq on the first anniversary of the beginning of the war, denouncing all terrorism, which means equating Bush and Bin Laden in the same denunciation. How can this be taking place in front of us? By the end of the day—and this is the question I want to raise to you—How were we united during the decades of the Cold War when the threat was, so to speak, coming from within ourselves? Because the communist ideology was, after all, devised by Western European intellectuals, and Russia (or at least half of it) was part of Europe.

A Plea for Education: Keynote Address to the Conference of Commandants, Sofia, Bulgaria