On Tuesday, March 20th, the 8th WEEK FOR LIFE in the European Parliament was marked by a conference on RESPONSIBILITY in the TIME OF ROBOTS organized by the European People’s Party Group in the EP and the One of US Federation. The event was hosted by MEP Miroslav Mikolášik, chairman of the EPP working group on Bioethics and Human Dignity and gathered stakeholders from different groups to discuss on the topic at stake. Throughout the session, speakers expressed concern over the increasing number of robots in our daily life and emphasised the need to ensure that the impact of robotics on the labor market is justly examined and that issues on liability are properly addressed. The lively debat
On Thursday, May 15, 2018, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received in audience the President of the Conference of European Churches, Bishop Christopher Hill, the CEC Vice-president, His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, and the CEC General Secretary, Rev. Heikki Huttunen. The meeting was also attended by Rev. Fr. Sorin Selaru, Director of the Representation of the Romanian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions. A short assessment of the collaboration between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Conference of European Churches was made during the meeting. The Patriarch of Romania stressed the active involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the activities of the Conference
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018, the European Parliament in Brussels hosted a seminar on the importance for Europe to protect its Christian Cultural Heritage. The event was co-organized by the Committee of Representatives of the Orthodox Churches to the European Union (CROCEU) and the EPP Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue. It brought together MEPs and other EU officials, academics, diplomats and representatives of religious organizations in Brussels, as well as an important number of persons who have been working extensively on the protection and promotion of Christian cultural heritage throughout Europe. The event took place within the wider framework of the European Year
