{"id":292552,"date":"2011-06-13T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/at-the-european-parliament-in-strasbourg\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:43:09","slug":"at-the-european-parliament-in-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/at-the-european-parliament-in-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"At the European Parliament in Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong> 9 June 2011 <\/strong>\u201cWe write these notes while on our return flight from Strasbourg. Just a few hours ago we were in the \u2018Low N 3.4\u2019 Hall of the European Parliament where a seminar<\/strong> was held, entitled: \u2018Europe and Dialogue. A political value for a globalized world\u2019. <\/strong>It was promoted by the Political Movement for Unity Thirty-two participants<\/strong>, seven of which were from the European Parliament and members of three different parties (PPE, S&D, Green) \u2013 five Italians, a German and an Austrian \u2013 along with three representatives of NGOs at the European Council and some parliamentary assistants. The meeting was significant: taking into account the typical \u201cnomadism\u201d of the European Parliamentarians who joined us in that small room of just 40 seats; they acted with true conviction; and deputies from other nations also desired to be present via email or by sms, regretting that they could not be physically present because of other committments. This revealed their searching and their interest and their esteem for this political community inspired by the charism of Chiara Lubich. Now it appears possible to start a small network of parliamentarians at a European level, \u00a0corresponding to the membership of various national parliaments, particularly in view of the project ‘Together for Europe’. Each part of the programme was important<\/strong> in providing a sense of dialogue among the diverse identities, and it was all supported by a common belief in fraternity. \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Paolo Giusta<\/strong> (official of the European Union in Brussels) was the moderator, intoducing the program and presenting the guidelines of the Movement for Unity in Politics<\/strong>. This was followed by Marco Fatuzzo<\/strong> who shared some of its concrete implementations, dwelling, in particular, on the \u201claboratories of fraternity\u201d<\/strong>, launched for some time in the national parliaments of Italy, Brazil, and South Korea. <\/strong> <\/strong>The keynote speaker was Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n<\/strong>, in charge of the Focolare Movement’s theological activities, who discussed some of the cultural and anthropological aspects of dialogue. Another valuable gift was the presence of G\u00e9rard Testard and of Severin Schmidt<\/strong>, both from the orientation committee of \u2018Together for Europe\u2019.<\/a> They described the journey of \u2018Together for Europe\u2019 and the appointment in Brusells, following the thread of this extraordinary experience with Stuttgart 2004 and Stuttgart 2007 as the milestones. Italian MP Silvia Costa<\/strong> concluded: \u201c. . . we are very interested in this dialogue and I\u2019m certain that those who are \u2018non-believers\u2019 will also feel engaged by the Project that has been presented to us.\u201d<\/em> <\/strong><\/strong>Austrian MP Ulrike Lunacek<\/strong>, from the Green Party, spoke saying that she had already known about the \u2018Together for Unity\u2019 project in Austria, and that she already considered herself invited to the 5 May 2012 event in Brussels. <\/strong>We will go back to the Parliament of Strasbourg,<\/strong> aiming solely for unity as our possible goal, so that the institutions of Europe might be ever more open to the power of the \u201ccharisms\u201d, and certain that this meeting will be one of the engines for universal brotherhood for which Chiara Lubich spent her life. Indeed, as she would often say: \u201cIf a small group of people will be united, then the world will be one!\u201d<\/strong>. Marco Fatuzzo <\/em> Chairman, Movement for Unity in Politics<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Returning from a \u201cEurope and Dialogue\u201d seminar promoted by the Movement for Unity in Politics, chairman Marco Fatuzzo writes to us. Steps foreward in the \u201cTogether for Europe\u201d project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}