18/01/07 Address to the Forum on Europe
On Thursday 18th Jan '07, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin addressed the Forum on Europe in Dublin Castle, on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.
'The Values Underpinning European Integration'
The European Union is a remarkable achievement. It is the most developed model of shared sovereignty to materialize since the emergence of the nation State. As such the EU is inevitably going to create hesitation among some and indeed it is also inevitable that mistakes in one direction or the other will be made along the process of European integration.
The project of European integration is a complex and an on-going project on which people can legitimately take different positions. Whereas the majority of Europeans, according to the European Values Study, applaud Europe’s integration, there are others who strongly oppose it and as the Atlas of European Values notes “very few experience really warm feelings when seeing the [EU’s] blue flag fluttering”.
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