70th anniversary of CERN: Speech by EU Commission President von der Leyen
“Today, I would like to draw three lessons from the story of CERN. The first one is that scale matters. No European country alone could have built the world’s largest particle collider… The second lesson of CERN is that if you want to compete more, you have to collaborate more. All your discoveries are open access… Your core mission at CERN has always been fundamental research. But all along your