Youth Unemployment, Migration, Human trafficking: these were among the topics discussed by COMECE and KEK with the Greek Deputy Minister Dimitris Kourkoulas. The aim of this meeting, one in a long-standing series of high-level encounters between Church representatives and the in-coming presidencies of the EU, was to discuss the principal issues the Greek EU Presidency hopes to address in the first six months of 2014. Top of the agenda were the questions of social cohesion and migration in the EU. Read more

There is a wide consensus within Europe that the nuclear family is the basic building block of a healthy and prosperous society. A wide range of social change has challenged this view. In the light of the changing profile of the family in Europe, Breda O’Brien, Columnist at The Irish Times, will explore the constitutive elements of the family and its relationship to society at large. On Tuesday 7 January 2014 at 19:00, “The Family in the 21st Century” at the Chapel for Europe will be the fourth of the series of  conferences EUROPE, POLITICS AND BEYOND organised by COMECE and the Chapel for Europe in view of the European elections. Read more and register here

the contemporary phenomenon of migration and asylum in the EU at their Autumn Plenary meeting from 13 to 15 November in Brussels. Read more

Europe is a continent on the move.

Internal migration and migration from outside, not least in pursuit of political asylum, has impacted on the lives of all communities within all Member States and communities of the EU.

The migrant is our neighbor. In order that they feel at home within the European family we need to understand the EU from their perspective. Cecilia Taylor Camara will describe their situation to us in an imaginative way. Read more and register here