 Hi, my name is Apostolo Doxiades, I'm a writer, I'm a Greek by birth and by uprinking. I am a European by culture and in spirit and I try in my books to understand things that are very close to the European tradition as is the struggle of ideas, the interaction of ideas and personalities and how the stories we live and the stories we make are also made up not just of our acts and our material environment but our cultural environment and our ideas. I'll tell you more about this in Amsterdam on June 6th at the Nexus Symposium. The theme of the Nexus Symposium is Je suis Europe un, I am European. And I think it's an extremely important theme for this moment, for this age, for this time, for Europe and also for a special soil, say now, for Greece. I'm speaking as a European but also as a Greek as a European and who wants and believes in the European and I think that the importance of this symposium is that it will bring together thinkers and people who are passionate about the issues of Europe and for the European Union, not necessarily for it or for or against I should say and they are going to discuss, we are going to discuss what there is that unites us in Europe, what is necessary for this to continue to unite us politically, what are the cultural roots, what are the historical roots and what is the present political situation around the European Union which is certainly very different. Should we go forward to a more political unification? Should we stop here? Should we go backwards and disband the European Union in order to further protect the European idea? All these are huge and important questions that cannot be answered simply. I'm not sure everything will be solved exactly on June 6th but I do hope that we'll go in a certain important direction and understanding the questions better and finding some common positions and common ground on which people from different European nations and cultures can stand and feel Europeans.