The importance of tertiary education institutions can never be over-emphasised, informing our youth of the historic and institutional reality of the EU. A whole generation of the European elite missed out on this specific training, and this has been of great harm to the European ideal. For this reason, it was with particular interest that I attended the start of the academic year at the European College of Parma (Italy) which offers a year of specialisation in Europe to young people of all...