25 October 2010
On October 15 2010 President Barroso called the first top-level meeting under “Article 17″ between representatives of so-called “philosophical and non-confessional organisations” and the EU presidents – Messrs José Manuel Barroso (of the Commission), Herman van Rompuy (of the Council) and Jerzy Buzek (of the Parliament). EHF was represented by its President, David Pollock, and one of its vice-presidents, Pierre Galand. The meeting was on the EU’s theme for 2010 – poverty and social exclusion…. read more »
17 October 2010
“Blair equates secularists with religious extremists” The EHF has written to each of the 27 EU Heads of Government asking them to oppose the candidacy of Tony Blair as permanent president of the EU Council of Ministers under the Lisbon Treaty because of his prejudice against non-religious beliefs and secularists. The letter quotes him as endorsing the Pope’s view that “humanism devoid of Faith [is an] ‘inhuman humanism’ ” and a recent speech in which… read more »
1 October 2010
Attacks on the Holy See The EHF was at the OSCE’s 2010 Review Conference (which this year replaced the usual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting) for the session on “freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief” on Friday October 1. In the plenary session, EHF President David Pollock attacked the “undiplomatic behaviour” of the Holy See. His remarks are reproduced below, with a link to the full version of his paper. Vera Pegna spoke (for the… read more »