” “”In the last few years, the march of Europe appeared uncertain, characterized by some progress but also permeated with fears and contradictions”. Those words were spoken by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar of the Pope and president of CEI, this afternoon, while he introduced the work of the V European Symposium of University Professors on “Where is Europe Going? Culture, Peoples, Institutions”. The event was promoted by the Office for Pastoral Care in Universities of the Vicariate of Rome, as preparation for the European Meeting of University Professors in 2007 (21-24 June), during the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. “The very institutional affairs, – went on the Cardinal, – linked with the approval of the Constitution suffered from that, generating results which one may as well call unsatisfactory, without lack of respect”. For this reason, according to Ruini, "A new hope blood is necessary, as well as a new cultural elaboration impulse, a remarkable recovery of references and roots on both the civil and moral level, with a corresponding enlightened juridical and institutional creativity”.” “
