Sophie Beaumont was a long-term colleague to many in the European Commission. Her work as a champion for disability rights touched even more people and continues to do so still today. To honour her life's work, the main meeting room of the L15 building was named "Sophie Beaumont Room" during a small ceremony held on 13 July 2022.

As they rehearsed, sounds of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses filled the hallways of the Kosovo Music Academy in Pristina. Thirty young musicians from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and several guests from the EU, now make up the Western Balkans Youth Orchestra (WBYO). Their mission is to promote mutual understanding and build good...

Leaving painful memories behind and moving forward has never been an easy process for anyone. It requires strength from all the parties involved in a previous conflict to find the courage to close chapters and move forward.

Back in 2005 when I studied in Bruges in Belgium, every European student had an Erasmus story from their college years, always with a language they learned while abroad. Hearing for the first time about this programme, I felt inspired and at the same time envious, as we lacked, back then, such opportunities for academic and student mobility in our part of Europe.