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Despite the vocal misgivings of its President, Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republic became the last of 27 European Union member states to sign the Lisbon Treaty, removing the final hurdle for its passage. The charter, intended to consolidate and strengthen the E.U.'s governance, calls for Europe's first full-time President, a new foreign policy chief and a new voting system. It could go into effect as early...
...staff that served history faculty offices in the Center for European Studies and CGIS South will not be replaced...
Europe's increasingly muscular brand of secularism has an unofficial capital: Strasbourg, France. Over the past decade, the quaint city of 273,000 near the German border - home to the European Parliament and other key international bodies - has been the site of a series of repeated slap-downs to those who are fighting to hold on to the Old Continent's fading religious impulses...
...latest religious vestige to be targeted is the crucifix that still hangs on the walls of many Italian public schools, a fixture the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights has now ruled is a violation of religious and education freedom. The Italian government announced it would appeal the Nov. 3 decision that would force Italy to pay a €5,000 ($7,400) fine to a mother in northern Italy who fought for eight years to have the crucifixes removed from her children's classrooms. Though the European court's decision does not call for the immediate removal...
...made it a centerpiece of his papacy to reverse the decline of Christianity on the Continent, where the faith originated. Last month, he used a Vatican meeting with the new E.U. envoy to the Holy See to recall the church's lingering bitterness over the failure of the European Parliament to include a reference to the "Christian roots" of Europe in the E.U. constitution a few years back. In 2004, a committee of the same parliament was also responsible for torpedoing the nomination for European commissioner of Rocco Buttiglione, a prominent Italian politician known for his traditional Catholic views...