Posts From Paolo Bonini

A step ahead

Un passo avanti

EN | IT – “Together on the Roads of Europe”. This is the theme of the European Conference of Youth Ministry, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity and the Council of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (CCEE) in Rome last December. European young people, along with bishops, pastoral leaders, and representatives of Church associations and movements from all over Europe, made reflections on the meaning of the Old Continent today.

Europeanism does not hold up

L’europeismo non regge

EN | IT – One month before the end of the semester of Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Italian Catholic Action proposed a reflection on the changes in the international context in which the Union itself is active. While reconstructing the evolution and geopolitical direction of the Union, the director of the journal of international politics “Limes”, Lucio Caracciolo, analyses the “ideological crisis” of Europeanism based on those ideal tensions that aimed to “overcome” the national State.