From the 10th to 11th April, Eurodiaconia and the Church & Society Commission of CEC, held a conference in Brussels on “sharing opportunities for churches and diaconia to shape the Europe 2020 strategy and its social objectives”. 15 delegates representing 13 European countries discussed opportunities for a stronger engagement in the European semester process, particularly through the Country Specific Recommendations. [...]

European economic governance needs to be balanced by a social dimension, according to Churches in Europe. At a meeting with the Irish EU Presidency in Dublin on Friday March 8, they questioned the sense in discussing economic austerity without including measures for social cohesion. Efforts aimed at the eradication of structural poverty and inequality should all be considered when measuring [...]

“On the basis of our Christian faith, we work towards a humane, socially conscious Europe, in which human rights and the basic values of peace, justice, freedom, tolerance, participation and solidarity prevail”. Charta Oecumenica

Injustices of the current world pose a substantial challenge for the unity of the Church; the question of catholicity and justice cannot be separated. This was the underlining message of the preparatory meeting for delegates of the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches from European churches, which took place from 27-28 February 2013 in Brussels.

From 4-6 February 2013 a meeting took place in Warsaw, Poland, of the Joint Committee of CCEE and CEC on the theme “Faith and Religion in a changing Europe. New Christian Movements in Europe: Challenge or Opportunity”.

Meeting of the CCEE-CEC Joint Committee in Warsaw This year, the Joint Committee of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) will meet in Warsaw at the Polish Caritas centre (Ul. Okopowa 55) from 4-6 February 2013 at the invitation of the Archbishop of Przemyśl, Mgr Józef Michalik, President of the Polish Bishops’ [...]

The Executive Committee of the Church & Society Commission of CEC (CSC) adopted the CSC “Europe and Family Policy” document in its last meeting at the end of November 2012. With this document CSC describes a differentiated approach of Churches in Europe to the varieties of changes in family policy and family life in Europe. Many developments in society and [...]

This was the topic of the Dialogue seminar organised by CEC and COMECE together with the Bureau of Policy Advisers of the European Commission, on 14 December 2012 in Brussels. The term “social market economy” entered the EU treaties, along with other objectives, via the Treaty of Lisbon. The model of the social market economy thus became one of the [...]

In this time of deep and severe financial, economic and social crisis, in which unemployment and poverty are rising in Europe and austerity programmes aggravate the social consequences for many people, a Dialogue Seminar on European Social Market Economy will take place on Friday, 14 December at the European Commission in Brussels. It is co-organised by the Bureau of European [...]

CEC General Secretary and President visit Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew The General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), Rev. Dr Guy Liagre, and the President of CEC, His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, had a meeting with His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch on 3rd December. H.A.H. Bartholomew occupies the First Throne of [...]