The 2021 Europe Festival was held at Huashan Creative Park on May 8.
According to Taipei Times, the two-day fair, themed “The EU Connects,” was organized by the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan.
According to TAIWAN FOCUS, this year's edition features more than 50 stalls that will showcase European brands, products, foods, cuisines, and cultural activities, after having been suspended the past two years.
Taipei Times mentions, Office Director Filip Grzegorzewski, representatives of 15 EU member states in Taiwan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) and Taipei Commissioner for External Affairs Tom Chou (周台竹) were among the attendees at the festival’s opening.
“I believe this pandemic has shown us how deeply connected we are with each other,” Grzegorzewski said.
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“The EU and Taiwan may seem far from each other geographically, but we are connected through the common values we share as like-minded partners, such as democracy, human rights and the rule of law,” he said.
Wu said that Taiwan-EU relations have “never been stronger.”
Taipei Times mentions, Europe Day marks the EU’s birthday, according to the office’s Web site.
On May 9, 1950, then-French minister of foreign affairs Robert Schuman “proposed a European peace project to end all wars on the European continent. The plan then gave birth to the European Union as we know it today,” a statement on the Web site said, adding that May 9 “is thus commemorated as ‘Europe Day,’ and a day to highlight Europe’s unity and diversity.”
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