Just one more week and I’ll be in Bratislava for a couple of days. It is the closing piece of a journey along the EU member states that I started in 2013. After Slovakia I will have visited them all, except for Cyprus. Time to recall memories of a special project.
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It must have been late May when I saw a brief interview on BBC World News with British historian Simon Schama about his latest book, Foreign Bodies. The book deals with the history of the development of vaccines. In the interview, he mentioned that he came up with the idea for the book during the COVID-19 pandemic. The widespread skepticism regarding the developed vaccines against the coronavirus made him wonder if this distrust was specific to this era. Foreign Bodies shows that since the inception of vaccines, people have been wary of them.
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After much consideration, I’m taking the plunge. Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, in September I’m ending my journey that started in 2013 along the EU member states. Bratislava is the final stop. The brief adventure begins on Sunday, September 10th.
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Last Sunday, 75,000 Moldovans turned out for a pro-European demonstration in the capital, Chisinau. During the rally, President Maia Sandu declared that her country wants to be an EU member by 2030. Is this a feasible statement?
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