Speakers will include Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Comunità di Sant’Egidio, and Chiara Lubich, founder of the Movimento dei Focolari, whose speech will be read by one of her first mates. Some European politicians announced they will be there as well: the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, and the deputy president of the European Commission, Jacques Barrot. Saturday’s event will be preceded today and tomorrow by the "Walking together" Congress for directors and collaborators of movements and communities, which will include 20 forums and 14 round tables about several subjects: evangelisation, ecumenism, marriage and family, the defence of life, political commitment, immigration, economy, the environment, mass media, peace and justice. The one of Stuttgart is the second "Together for Europe" meeting: the first one took place in the German city in 2004. Since then the involvement of Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, Anglican and Orthodox movements and communities has extended to other countries and to movements and communities of different confessions. This movement began in Augsburg (Germany) on the day October 31st 1999 the Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran Church signed the Joint Declaration on Justification. Since then they decided to have contacts and to promote the first "Together for Europe" in 2004.
