Future EU platform seeks to stay clean of hate speech
EU commission vice-president Dubravka Šuica (l), Portugese EU affairs minister Ana Paula Zacarias and MEP Guy Verhofstadt at a previous meeting of the main body of the conference (Photo: European Parliament)
Brussels, Today, 07:15
Citizens who want to participate in the digital platform of the conference on the future of Europe will need to sign up to a charter of EU values and principles in an effort to avoid hate speech and disinformation on the site.
MEPs in the constitutional affairs committee on Tuesday (13 April) discussed where the organisation of the conference stands, which is due to kick off on 9 May with a hybrid - online and offline - event in Strasbourg.
First step towards sainthood of Robert Schuman is ‘wonderful’, says senior MEP
It is reported that Pope Francis could recognise the “heroic virtues” of one of the EU’s founding fathers within weeks.
European Parliament Audiovisual: Robert Schuman, front row, centre
13 Apr 2021
A senior Rome-based Catholic cleric, Father Bernard Ardura, said, “Schuman dedicated his life to serving the common good, seeking peace and reconciliation with Germany to create a community of European states.”
Several Popes have backed the idea of a “European project” and the French-born Schuman, a devout Catholic, was first mooted for sainthood some three decades ago.
The possibility of him becoming a saint was welcomed by senior Polish EPP MEP Danuta Hubner, who told this site, “It is wonderful that Pope Francis, a man of peace and reconciliation, will bestow the highest honour of the Catholic Church on the man who shared the same values and gave both the Christian and human witness
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