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“Regardless of the status of the United Kingdom within the EU, the Catholic Church of England and Wales will always be part of the European Church. The existing relationships between the English Bishops Conference and the life and efforts of the Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences (Comece) will go on, actually they shall be stronger”. This is written on Europeinfos, Comece’s online monthly magazine, which tells about the outcome of a recent dialogue in Brussels. The magazine also deals with the “consequences of digitalisation on employment in Europe” and looks to the November summit between the EU and the African Union: “If we do not give the African countries the political space and time to solve the existing controversial issues and face their domestic political challenges, the goal of a sustainable economic development and investments in youth will be an inaccessible dream”, Zambian Jesuit father Charles B. Chilufya writes. Also on Europeinfos, a reflection on the role of interreligious dialogue in the experience with migrants of the Basilica del Sacro Cuore in Rome. It is with an article by father Fridolin Pflüger, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Germany, that the European migration policy is disappointedly looked at: “Europe must stop hiding itself behind ruthless negotiations that, even if made in the name of migration control, have no other purpose but keeping the refugees away”, Pflüger writes (http://europe-infos.eu/).
