„Everyone understands something when people talk about European identity. Let me tell you about my point of view. I was born in a small town in Slovakia. A country with traditional christian values, but I was one oft the lucky ones, who got to live abroad and get to know other cultures. I moved out of Slovakia at the age of 13, so, pretty early. Moved to a new country with dimensionally different opinions, my mind opened and I saw the flaws on my own birth land. I didn’t even notice when, but I lost the feeling of nationalism and it faded away more and more over the time I was traveling. At first it confused me, you naturally feel an obligation to your parents. At some point I reached the clarity and every time someone asked me: „Where are you from?“ the only answer, that I considered being truth was : „Europe“. And I am ready for fight for my identity, then we are not only people from France and Germany or Slovakia. We are EUROPEANS! And we shall never forget that.“
Veva Chmelárová, 19, living in Berlin, originally from Tobolcany, Slovakia