Prime Minister Edi Rama has shared this Tuesday a congratulatory message on the occasion of May 9, Europe Day.

In a social networks statement, the head of Government published a sign saying that "Europe is here. Albania is Europe".

However, Europe Day commemorates the date when the first step towards the creation of what is now known as the European Union was taken.

French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman read a statement calling on France, Germany and other European countries to pool their coal and steel industries, which would be the first concrete foundation for a future federation. European.

Countries to which the call was addressed had emerged materially and morally ruined by conflicts with each other.

What Schuman proposed was the creation of a supranational institution that would administer the coal and steel industry, the sector which at the time was the basis of military power.

Years later, at the Milan Summit in 1985, EU leaders decided that May 9 would be declared and celebrated as Europe Day.