Independent, UK - The European Commission president has wished Britain well with Brexit, but warned that "strength does not lie in splendid isolation"
On the day of the UK's departure, Ursula von der Leyen and other top officials told a gathering in Brussels that they should look at the future of the European project, as the bloc plans to reinvent itself at 27 members.
“We know very well that as the sun rises tomorrow a new chapter for our union of 27 will start,” Ms von der Leyen told an audience in the Parliamentarium, a museum dedicated to the history of pan-European democracy.
“Our experience has taught us that strength does not lie in splendid isolation, but in our unique union. Nowhere else in the world can you find 27 nations of 440 million people speaking 24 different languages, relying on each other, working together, living together. "This is not by accident or by chance; this is grounded in centuries of shared history, decades of shared experience."
She added: "If you look at the enlargement process you see that the beauty of the European Union is that nobody has been forced to join the European Union. All came voluntarily."
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