What would Victor Hugo have made of this weekend’s European elections? The great French author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables belonged to a long line of thinkers and visionaries stretching back to William Penn (who proposed a European Parliament as…
What if the European Parliament got bogged down with the same kind of impasse we have seen recently in Westminster? This could be the outcome of this week’s European parliament elections, probably the most crucial in the forty years of…
From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted. (Part I here, Part II here, Part III here) Sir Fred Catherwood’s is another story of Christian influence in the European project. A rather unique figure in the generally eurosceptic British evangelical world, he was president of the…
From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted. (Part I here, Part II here) Meanwhile, where were the Christian ‘players’? As we have seen, devout Christians have been engaged in the unfolding process at various stages, particularly Catholics. The Christian democracy movement has strongly influenced…
“Without its Christian identity, the European Union represents nothing more than a supranational bureaucratic framework from which an increasingly large number of European nation-states feel estranged.” In clear, direct language, the audience in the imposing Patriarchal Palace in Bucharest heard…
