From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.