On 21 October Herman Van Rompuy, President Emeritus of the European Council, Belgian Minister of State and President of CIFE held the inaugural lecture for the opening of the academic year 2020/21 at CIFE.
The lecture was attended by the students of all seven CIFE Masters, in the study locations of their respective programmes, currently in Nice, Berlin and Rome. Because of the Covid-19 crisis, Mr Van Rompuy was unable to come to Nice and gave his speech via ZOOM. Abridged version