The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker represented the European Union on Sunday 7 April in Kigali at the opening ceremony of the week to commemorate the Rwandan genocide, which marks its twenty-fifth anniversary.
It was a message of solidarity and collective responsibility, about the duty to remember, that he delivered. Recalling that “Europe has itself been the scene of some of the worst atrocities known to man. And in Europe, just as in Africa and elsewhere, time...