THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF EUROPE: MGR. VAN LUYN (COMECE), "MAKING THE YOUNG AWARE OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES ABOUT THE VIEW OF MAN THAT WE WANT TO HAVE IN FUTURE" (2)

” “In this way, commented the president of Comece, "the European citizens apply the principle of subsidiarity one way only, while it entails not only rights but duties as well". According to mgr. van Luyn, "it is very important, or actually necessary, to speak with the young people of today, to educate them to a broader sense of the respect for human life, with a glance that must not be limited to Europe alone, but encompasses the whole wide world". This, to boost "solidarity between the European countries as well as to promote the world’s common good". We must also endeavour to "make the young generations aware of the consequences the decisions made by the European Union today and by the international community as well as by the developments of the technological and scientific processes will have on the view of man in thirty years’ time". We should therefore reawaken in the young "the principle of responsibility". "We must protest harder – explained the president of Comece – against the unfair decisions made by the international community, and we have a duty to stop those choices that will not make the future more ‘humanising’".” “