” “"In the building of a united Europe, the addition of the sacrifices has been lower than the addition of the advantages". These words can aptly sum up the historical speech given by Alfred Grosser, lecturer in political science at the University of Paris, this morning at the workshop of Comece, about "50 years after the Treaty of Rome, what values for Europe", which is in progress in Clermont Ferrand, on the initiative of the Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences (Comece). In a class filled up with students who attentively listened to the report and who will take part in the debate, Grosser, in reviewing some steps of the building of Europe, stated that "one of the most important values of this experience was and will be the common glance on the wounded man". "The will and the capability of reconciliation, mutual respect he added are the way on which Europe walks, does not run, because sensitivity and commitments are not strengthened and spread in a hurry". In addition, mentioned Grosser, "reducing diversities to one single identity means creating aggressiveness". Mihaly Kranitz, theologian at the University of Budapest, then proposed his testimony on the Hungarian revolution of 1956. "The tanks he commented stopped and hurt a people’s longing for freedom, but they did not extinguish it. Europe is made up of such stories of students, workers, intellectuals and ordinary people".” “
