Tag: religion

British employers trample on religious freedoms by barring staff from wearing crosses at work, requiring them to provide sex advice to gays, or to preside at same-sex civil partnership ceremonies, four Christians told Europe's top rights court yesterday (4 August).

Europe must assert its religious identity if it is to face up to the "challenges" of globalisation and immigration, Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Franco Frattini said yesterday (26 January).

Violence against Jews is spreading throughout European cities in the wake of Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip amid concerns that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe.

Dialogue is not enough to bridge the cultural gaps between EU citizens, a major Jewish leader told MEPs yesterday (19 November), calling for the establishment of "covenantal relationships" to develop closer social bonds between the peoples of Europe.

All immigrants into the EU must broadly accept the basic elements of the European political system to which the separation of religion and state is 'the key', according to Professor Henk Dekker of the University of Utrecht.

Debates about European identity have intensified in the context of EU enlargement and the Union's Constitutional and Lisbon Treaties. Although the motto "unity in diversity" is generally seen as best describing the aims of the EU, opinions differ widely as to how it should be understood.