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of being able to live wherever you want,

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and we must even fight for it

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I've also learned something else from all this;

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I am grateful to once again be part of it,

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Values that we are going to need

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for the future,

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and our human society, if we're to survive

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But it is a bold, brave and beautiful idea,

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all the borders that had suddenly rematerialised

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We must not forget them.

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that the European project of open borders,

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I've rarely felt more relief,

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more whole again.

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by the COVID-19 pandemic,

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I had just travelled across 10 borders

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that we must stay vigilant,

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more joy,

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I was lying on a bed in Naples.

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that I had become once again a citizen of the EU,

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has a humanist, progressive, peaceful spirit.

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and for some 5 million other European citizens

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To burn the house down for short-term gain.

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and how they felt about

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I was told that even after ten years of legal residence

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It felt like

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their fears,

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is not something we can take for granted.

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that I learned, exactly four years later

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asking them how they had been hit

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I truly believe

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Look at the world around us today.

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This is not hyperbole.

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they still are today.

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until 3 years after the UK would leave the EU.

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and of embracing strength in diversity.

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that at its core, the European project,

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with our project "Reopening Europe".

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The EU is not perfect.

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to fall in love with whoever you want,

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No bureaucracy or human-made system

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That being a citizen of the EU

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What was an existential pain become a real one,

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Everything was uncertain,

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and not only that,

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As the Belgians put it so well;

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I truly, truly am.

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of working together

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At those that seek to divide us.

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about the life I'd built

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on the 24th of June, 2020,

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I learned that I would lose something I was born with.

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is without fault or imperfection.

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that it needs maintaining,

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across the continent,

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more and more of in this world

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but mostly listened to other citizens,

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This can all sound overly dramatic.

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between countries, cities, and even municipalities.

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L'union fait la force.

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and, I cried.

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but also their hopes

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A project where we talked to,

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in another European country, Belgium.

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is not guaranteed,

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such a sense of relief, and deep, deep joy

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Something important,

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a Belgian.

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We listened to their experiences,

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paying taxes and contributing to society,

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and they shared so many things in common

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were being forcibly removed from my insides

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it was difficult.

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of the EU with two friends,

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It was a silent,

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to the day of the referendum result,

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It was therefore with...

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But this is how I lived it, I promise you.

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Due to a technicality

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I wouldn't be able to become Belgian

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dead weight around my neck.

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There's something I feel I have to say.

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The weight of uncertainty that lasted 4 years was real,

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as I realised that I now had to start worrying

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On the 24th of June 2016,

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parts of my hardware and software as a human being,

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Thank you for having me back.

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that I learned over the last 4 years.