“At the dawn of an information and technology society, with radically new scientific and technological prospects, the European decision-makers, the scientific community and the ethic experts urgently need to commit themselves to an open and transparent dialogue, so that Europe will remain a credible project at the service of human dignity”. This is the belief Noël Treanor, secretary general of Comece (Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences) expresses in a note for SirEuropa and Europe infos, online from tonight at old.agensir.it. Following the decision taken by the Council of Ministers about the EU funding to research on embryo stem cells, Treanor speaks of a "regrettable" choice and comments that "the recognition of one’s limits is a prerequisite to take responsible decisions. Science and public politics must admit that all that is possible is not necessarily acceptable”, he states, given the EU seems to be unable to "respect the principle of the inviolability of human life”. Hence the concern of the Church for a debate "which is still at dawn”, and its commitment to steer clear of "the pitfall of the reification of human life”.
