” “Rabbis, imams, leaders of Christian churches (Anglican, Evangelical and Orthodox) and Catholic cardinals. Buddhists will be represented by the Dalai Lama. This is the list of the religious leaders who will take part on May 30th in Brussels in the meeting launched by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and by the Austrian Chancellor, Wolfgang Schüssel, to discuss “Fundamental rights and mutual respect”. During the debate reads a release from the Commission the religious leaders will be able to make their comments about the way the religious communities can help appease tensions and express their expectations about the EU institutions. The Catholic Church will be represented by the Patriarch of Lisbon, card. José da Cruz Policarpo, the archbishop of Vienna, card. Christoph Schönborn, and the president of Comece (Commission of European Bishoprics), mgr. Adrianus H. van Luyn. The Orthodox churches will be represented by the metropolitan bishop Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad and the metropolitan bishop Emmanuel of France. The meeting will also be attended by pastor Jean Arnold de Clermont as the president of the Conference of European Churches. Jews will be represented the head rabbis of France, Joseph Sitruk (who is also the president of the Conference of the European rabbis), of Brussels, Albert Guigui, and Strasbourg, René Gutman.
