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The discussions agenda included topics as the minority groups, educational system and the opportunities offered by the EU to the Moldovan students, identity and unity in the context of European integration of Moldova. Through non-formal discussions, the participants had the possibility to share different ideas, to destroy preconceptions about EU and European integration, by learning more from the experience of Slovakia and other EU member-states.
One of the conclusions made within the European Café meetings is that Moldova is able to succeed in becoming a part of the European values, but still, more compromises need to be done.
In this regard, having participated in an European Café event, His Excellency Pirkka Tapiola, Ambassador of the EU in Moldova mentioned that to a certain extent Moldova itself can be viewed as a miniature European Union, and to build its future, it needs to overcome its identity problems and find possibilities for economic development and social welfare. The building of a European nation depends, first of all, on building a political nation and a common idea.
In his turn His Excellency Róbert Kirnág, Ambassador of Slovakia in Moldova, emphasized that only when the Slovak people were united as citizens of Slovakia, they succeeded in the way to European Integration. “We lost a lot of energy in national and identity fights. To reach national unity, we had to find internal and external consensus, have a national interest and a common strategy and be united,” said Ambassador of Slovakia in Moldova, Róbert Kirnág.
European Café was organized by the IJC as part of the project “Widening the European Dialogue in Moldova” project implemented by the Slovak Atlantic Commission with the assistance of the Central European Policy Institute. The project was financially supported by SlovakAid.
