Wir gedenken heute des Beginns des 2.Weltkriegs vor 70. Jahren. Nazi-Deutschland hat diesen furchtbaren Krieg begonnen und damit über die Völker Europas, insbesondere auch über das polnische Volk, aber auch über das deutsche Volk, unvorstellbares Leid und Elend gebracht.
It is hard to underestimate the emotion felt by the people of my generation who looked on not just as the physical wall of Berlin caved in on itself, but seeing the deeper wall of ideological mistrust and fear and falsehood being torn down by means of peaceful protest, using only the weapons of truth and justice.
We, people from the former second world, we can only add our experience from two decades of transition from „historic materialism" to its neo-liberal form.
In this panel on the resources which Catholic Social Teaching can offer to policy-makers and to the public debate of citizens in the different member states of the European Union, I will first lay out how human dignity is the joint reference point.