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Religious leaders and the EU take tentative first steps

By Alliance Alert

Reuters: "Top European Union officials held talks this week with religious leaders, part of a policy of holding consultations with religious groups that was enshrined in the EU?s Lisbon reform treaty, which came into force last December. But not everyone supports the move. ... It was the the sixth such consultation since 2005, but the first to take place in the context of the Lisbon treaty, the EU?s latest collective agreement. Article 17 of the treaty commits the EU to maintaining 'an open, transparent and regular dialogue with ? churches and (non-confessional and philosophical) organisations'."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).