The will to transcend the murderous trauma in the Balkans was also present. Watching students from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia confront their memories of the Balkan wars, “European students” had first-hand experience of what true “reconciliation” meant and what the rules of the game were in the greatest success the EU had known – transcending the Cold War and nationalist animosities.
当时的学生也愿意放开巴尔干半岛的惨剧带来的伤痛。看着来自叙利亚、克罗地亚和波斯尼亚的学生努力忘却巴尔干战争的记忆，“欧洲学生”真切地领会到“和解”的真正含义，以及欧盟有史以来最伟大的成就——超越冷战和民族仇恨——中的游戏规则。