An article from edition 31 of Vista magazine. A response to the Pew research center’s 2018 report, Being Christian in Western Europe Contemporary Christian beliefs and behaviours in Western Europe are rarely researched beyond the national level. To address this knowledge…
Thursday this week is Europe Day, May 9, a day to celebrate our belonging to a family of peoples which have lived together in peace for an unprecedented 74 years. With our Schuman Centre colleagues in Romania, we will hold…
This last weekend was Easter, again – at least in Orthodox Europe and other Eastern Churches. And the Orthodox really know how to celebrate Easter in grand style. In Romania last week, I happened to be passing the Patriarchal Cathedral…
In this weekly word published on the 12th of May 2003, Jeff Fountain explains why it is worth celebrating Europe Day on May 9th. As everybody knows, last Friday (May 9) was Europe Day, occasioning wild celebrations all across the…
From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted. Today’s European Union continues to attract member states, has replaced violence by dialogue and upheld peace for nearly seventy years. Yet few would claim that it lives up to Schuman’s original dream of a ‘community…
