” ““European identity: politics, society, religion” is the topic of the Seventh Summer College held in Graz (Austria) until September 16th. Promoted by Comece (the Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences) with the Karl Franzen University of Graz and the diocese of Graz-Seckau, the study session, opened on September 2nd, has been attended by 82 university students from 25 European countries. “I am sure and I wish with all my heart that this international summer college will meet great favour with all the students and the participants, and for the good of the European Union”, wrote the president of Comece and bishop of Rotterdam, mgr. Adrianus Van Luyn, in his message to the participants. Lectures and debates are aplenty in the meeting which this year stands out for three new features: a wide variety of contents (the schedule includes legal, theology and business workshops), an inter-religious approach and a selection of the most diverse participants, who are no longer collaborators of the European Bishops Conferences but students from different faculties. The lecture about European identity will be given by Thomas Meyer (Dortmund university); Islam will be addressed by Ahmet Alibasic (Sarajevo), while the topic of Jewish identity will be dealt with by Alfred Bodenheimer (Heidelberg). The next event is the workshop on the Treaty of Rome that Comece promotes in Clermont-Ferrand (France) from October 9th to 11th in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the Treaty, which was signed in Rome in 1957.
