Quote: Europe’s rich spiritual and cultural history

Quote: Europe’s rich spiritual and cultural history


Former Czech president Vaclav Havel in an address to the European Parliament:

Europe’s rich spiritual and cultural history - combining elements of Antiquity, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment - has created an array of indisputable values, to which the European Union pays lip service, but which it often regards simply as pretty packaging for the things that really matter. But aren’t these values what really matter, and are not they, on the contrary, what give direction to all the rest?

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