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Mr President, the Solidarity movement had three meanings. Firstly, for Poland, it meant breaking free from the foreign Soviet model. Secondly, for Central and Eastern Europe it meant doing away with the division of Europe effected at Yalta at the end of the Second World War. As a result, the part of Europe cut off from the rest of Europe by Communism was able to regain its rightful place in the mainstream of our continent’s political history. In this sense, therefore, the events at the Gdansk shipyard, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolution in Kiev are all stages in Europe’s journey to freedom.
Thirdly, for Western Europe Solidarity meant rediscovering the true meaning of values that had disappeared from public life as a result of
. I refer to values such as freedom, solidarity, democracy and the dignity of the individual. Thanks to Solidarity, many people in Western Europe came to understand that the fundamental values revived by Solidarity had to become part of the fabric of the reorganised and reunited Europe.
The message and significance of these events transcends the experience of a single nation. They have a far more universal meaning and a pan-European nature. Their message is one of European unity. If the Schuman plan is recognised as the basic premise underpinning European integration, then the Gdansk shipyard demands must be seen as heralding another important stage in the process. In their September 1981 message to workers in Central and Eastern Europe, Solidarity activists wrote about the sense of a common fate uniting all Europeans in the eastern part of our continent. Twenty-five years later that same expression appeared in the preamble to the Constitutional Treaty, referring on this occasion to the enlarged European Union.
The Solidarity movement highlights the importance of solidarity as the basis of any system of trust and unity. Solidarity, understood to mean shouldering each other’s burdens, has a very practical expression indeed as far as the European Union is concerned. It means financial solidarity regarding security and solidarity in foreign policy. Only by displaying such solidarity can we attain European unity."@en1
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