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Theme of the day of 8 November 2006



Xth Dialogue between the Orthodox Churches and the EPP-ED Group in Bratislava


Tenth Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the EPP-ED Group l-r: Antonio Milososki, Foreign Minister, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Béla Marko, Deputy Prime Minister of Romania, HE Jan Kolonic, Archbishop of Presov and Slovakia, HE Mgr Stanislav Hocevar, Archbishop of Belgrade, HE Metropolitan Emmanuel, Archbishop of France, Alojz Peterle MEP (Slovenia), Dialogue Coordinator of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Jaime Mayor Oreja MEP (Spain), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece, Mikuláš Dzurinda, Former Prime Minister of Slovakia, Slobodan Vuksanovic, Minister of Education, HE Bishop Irinej of Batchka, Serbia Patriarchate
Tenth Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the EPP-ED Group l-r: Mikuláš Dzurinda, Former Prime Minister of Slovakia, Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia, and Konstantinos Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece
Tenth Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the EPP-ED Group
Tenth Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the EPP-ED Group Jaime Mayor Oreja MEP (Spain), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (on the left), and Konstantinos Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece

The EPP-ED Group will open the 10th dialogue between the Orthodox Churches and the EPP-ED Group in Bratislava (Slovakia) on 9 November. The conference lasts for two days. It will focus on the interaction between politics and religion in South-East Europe, the role which religious communities can play in bringing countries in the West Balkans into the European Mosaic.

The dialogue will be thematically divided into three sessions:
  1. Thessaloniki process: progress reports from Croatia and Serbia
  2. Thessaloniki Process: Embracing the Peoples of the Western Balkans in the European Mosaic
  3. The lesser-known Europeans: Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine
The meeting will be chaired by Alojz Peterle MEP, EPP-ED Group Co-ordinator for Dialogue with the Orthodox Church. The dialogue meeting will be opened by H.E. Jan Kolonic, Archbishop of Slovakia.

The following speakers will give keynote addresses to be followed by a debate on integrating the people of South-East Europe into the European family: Vojislav Kostunica, Prime Minister of Serbia, Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Prime Minister of Greece, EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament Chairman Hans-Gert Poettering MEP.

Other keynote speakers include: H.E. Mr Mikuláš Dzurinda, H.E. Antonios Milososki, H.E. Cardinal Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, H.E. Mr Béla Marko, Bishop Irinej of Batchka, EPP-ED Vice-Chairman Jaime Mayor-Oreja MEP and European Commissioner Ján Figel'.

The Dialogue will take place in the Crowne Plaza Hotel - Conference Centre, Hodžovo námestie 2, 81625 Bratislava, Slovakia.

All sessions will be open to the press.

Full Programme *.docen
EPP-ED website on the Dialogues between the Orthodox Churches and the EPP-ED Group

Press releases:
   10/11/2006 The 10th Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and EPP-ED Group asks for respect for religious freedom, especially in Turkey
   10/11/2006 Lojze Peterle predseduje 10. mednarodni konferenci v Bratislavi/ Lojze Peterle MEP chairs the Xth Dialogue Conference in Bratislava
   09/11/2006 Religion and Politics must be mutually supportive for the peoples of South-East Europe
   31/10/2006 Tenth dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the EPP-ED Group to be held in Bratislava


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