Albright on hope – Europe whole and free – An award – Our deal in the Aegean

It also required that citizens in the Balkans did not yield to the urge of revenge, as Albright explained to a crowd in Pristina following the end of the 1999 war: www.esiweb.org 3 “Democracy cannot be built on revenge … It must be a victory of those who believe in the rights of the individual over those who do not. [...] But her most important message was to all believers in democracy and human rights, in Europe and in the US: “We must insist on the integrity, the importance of democratic values, the rights of majorities and minorities and the dignity of every human being. [...] The number of people who drowned in the Aegean Sea also fell immediately, from 1,152 in the year before the declaration to 81 in the year after. [...] How had this declaration come about? What happened in Greece and Turkey in the years that followed? Why did the agreement fail at the end of February 2020? What can one learn from the sharp reduction in the number of deaths at sea? And importantly: What does this experience mean for the future of Europe’s borders, in particular for the ambitions expressed by the new German coalition government, in. [...] The EU … will further speed up the disbursement of the initially allocated 3 billion euros under the Facility for Refugees in Turkey … Once these resources are about to be used to the full, and provided the above commitments are met, the EU will mobilise additional funding for the Facility of an additional 3 billion euro up to the end of 2018.