The Integration of Europe and the Problem of a Threat to Christian Values

Abstract

The tendencies for the integration of Europe have recently gained momentum. On the other hand there are strong actions which impede these efforts or even make them impossible. The European experience points out that such an integration is possible only then when the European community is united around the values, which have grown out of Christianity, which are a common heritage of the believers and nonbelievers alike. These values have decided about the spiritual and cultural unity of Europe. Two great traditions of West and East make this unity. United Europe is also a Europe of Fatherlands which make it, and not just Europe - Fatherland. Each state has its own identity which makes its welfare, and Europe under unification cannot negate it. When one renunciates universal values, the identity of particular states, introduces the principles of moral relativism and "privatization" of morality as a criterium of the integration of Europe, then this process is doomed to fail. Some tragic events, which we are now witnessing, in Europe are a painful evidence.