

Sarkozy against Killing European Dream: EU must Hear People's Anger, he says eve of EU-Turkey Summit

*Strasbourg-Shiltigheim/Angelo Marcopolo/- Speaking during an EU Parliament's Plenary Session in Strasbourg which debates Paris' terrorist Attacks, "Radicalisation" and "Recruitment .. by Terrorist Organizations", at the Eve of a Crucial EU - Turkey Summit next Sunday in Brussels, still deserted by Maximum Security Measures after Paris Massacres MasterMinded by a Belgian resident who returned from Syria through Turkey, as well as 2 of his "Kamikazi",
the Experienced Leader of France's main Opposition Party "the Republicans", former President Nicolas Sarkozy, stressed that EU must "Hear the Anger of the People" which is currently Growing throughout Europe, (as many Electoral results and/or Polls in several EU Countries clearly show), and Called for a Real Change of erroneous Policies threatening to Kill "the European Dream"; which Needs, Today, "New Foundations" :
- F.ex., even if more EU "Enlargement is Unreasonable" Today, nevertheless, some "Persist to Enlarge" even further the EU, he Criticized.

+ Worse : Even if leaving "Turkey enter inside Europe, is Irresponsible", as he pointed out, nevertheless, some "Persist to Promise to it (Ankara) an (EU) Accession !", he Denounced,

attracting a Strong Applause by a Numerous Audience in a Public Meeting Full of People, while many were still Waiting to find a place to enter inside, with quews still extending up to the main Entrance of a Large Conference Building, at Shiltigheim, near Strasbourg's European District.

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The forthcoming, exceptional EU - Turkey Summit on Sunday reportedly aims to discuss also Ankara's demands to get more than 3 Bilions € in full Grants from the EU, in Addition to the 1 Billion € of Grants each Year that it already receives, to Open more Chapters in its Negotiations with the EU on an "Open-Ended" Process related to its initial, 1999-2005 "Accesion" Bid, notoriously Controversial and UnPopular, (particularly after the 3 '"NO" to EuroReferenda betwen 2005-2097 in France, the Netherlands and Ireland, as wel as the Elections, then, of Nicolas Sarkozy in France and Angie Merkel in Germany, etc, followed by their joint Brillant Win, inside the Larger ChristianDemocrat/EPP Party, led by Joseph Daul, on 2009 EU Parliament's Elections, to which succeded on 2014 a Votes' Result even More towards the "Right" side of the Political Spectrum, with much More MEPs elected on programs More Opposed to Turkey's EU Claims). But, the most Dangerous Issue Today, which obviously Risks to have more Immediate Consequences, and affecting EU Citizens EveryDay Life, as well as EU's Social Structure and Cohesion, (etc), is that of Ankara's demand for the EU to give to more than 73 Milions of Turks a Total "Visa Free" regime, allowing them to Come and Go throughout all the EU whenever they like.
Something that the French Government had always Refused, as long as Sarkozy was President, (i.e. up to May 2012), and might Risk Today to Add even More serious Security Problems, also as far as Deadly Criminal and Terrorist Threats are concerned, given Facts such as, f.ex., the Cold-Blood Murder of 3 Dissident Kurdish Women on January 2013 in Paris, for which many Suspect an Agent of the Turkish Security Services, the Arrival from Turkey of at least 3 ISIL's Terrorists who Killed 130 innocent Civilian People last October 2015 in Paris, to which are also added recent Rumours about an alleged Distribution of more than 100.000 Turkish Passports to ISIL's and Other Extremist Islamist Jihadists, as well as Chinese "Uyghur" Violent Separatists, according to a British Journalist cited by mainstream Russian Press Agency "Sputnik", etc.
But Reuters a.o. reported that Sunday's EU - Turkey Summit risks even to Shorten the Time Deadline to be set for Visa-Free Entries of 73 Millions of Turks inside the European Union, by fixing it only in a Few Montths Time : I.e. on "October 2016", instead of the Initial 2017 Deadline, with the Result to Deprive both French and German, as well as Other Kkey EU Countries' Citizens from a Chance to Debate in Public and Express Politicaly their Views at the forthcoming Democratic Elections in France and Germany, etc., on 2017.
++ Moreover, at the same time, "Communautarism (Gettoisation) ... was the preparation of the Destruction of our Society". "Multi-Culturalism ... was the Contrary of our Identity", Sarkozy also denounced Tonight, in this regard, obviously referring to a series of Historic relevant Statements also by German Chancelor Angie Merkel, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, etc.
+++ We "don't deny the Advantages of Globalisation", which "allows .. .. to Meet eachother, exchange, Share", and "could ... Build many Bridges between Men, Peoples, Societies and Cultures", "But we must also See, with lucidity, that it can also become the Worst thing, If it acts as a Niveller of Cultures throughout the World, something that we do Not want at all, ... a Uniformity of the Ways of Life, Thought and Creation, if it's an Open Door to all Dumpings, to all Unfair Competitions, to all Speculations", he went on to add, Widening the scope of a kind of Concentric Circles of obviously Interrelated Issues, (As, f.ex., the famous notorious Refusal, by Turkish President Erdogan, of any Socio-Cultural "Assimilation" of Turkish Immigrants inside EU Countries, too often pushed to gather in "Ghettos", as many have Denounced and Warned throughout Europe, already as early as since the 1990ies, from Danemark to Germany, etc., both inside the CoE and in various Top European Political Leaders' Statements) :
- "Communautarism (Ghettoisation),... Abandonment of (Cultural) Assimilation, ... the Drift of some Neighbourhoods, ...., the EnDangering of our Culture Security and Identity, which is added to the Economic and Social Lack of Security, are the Most Visible Signs of the Breaking down of our Republican Model, under Violent Strikes by those who ...., during 40 Years, Demolish our Values, Principles and Institutions. We are just Starting to See the Consequences of that Demolition".
- Because, in fact, "Communautarism (Ghettoisation) .... was the Premice of our Society's Destruction", and "Multi-Culturalism, .. was the Contrary of our Identity", he pointed out.
+ Moreover, from both a GeoPolitical point of view, and as a matter of Principles, Sarkozy significantly chose to Speak about Russia, (Historic part of General De Gaule's "Greater Europe, from the Atlantic ocean to the Ural's mountains"), immediately after Denouncing a pro-Turkey lobby's "Irresponsible" attempts (Comp. Supra) :
- Even if "it's Crazy to Believe that Russia might be obliged to Back Down by imposing Sanctions", (on pretext of the controversial Ukranian conflict, since the unresolved yet Kiev Deadly "Snipers" incident of February 2014, which threw away an already Signed Peaceful Agreement and provoked a Violent Division of that usualy Peaceful European Country, particularly after the also non-elucidated Atrocious Massacre of more than 50 Civilian Dissident People in Odessa, who were Burned Alive on 2 May 2014, without any Serious Investigation by the Kiev's Government until now, in order to Find and Punish those Responsible for such Horrible Crimes, as CoE has just Denounced recently, in a Report just published last October 2015), nevertheless, some push the EU to "Continue to impose Sanctions against Russia" even for a Longer Period of Time, (and despite a recent Calm in the Ukraine conflict, mainly after Political Concessions by the Autonomist Regions of Donetsk-Luhansk, which Postponed for 2016 their own Local/Regional Elections, as the Kiev's Government wished, even if the Minsk Summit's Agreements gave them a Right to Vote before the End of 2015), Denounced Sarkozy.
He was largely Applauded by the Audience on this Topical point, apparently because many French a.o. People, Today, naturaly can't find normal for the EU to ...Reward Turkey, after Ankara's Government suddenly unleashed against the EU an Unprecedented "Tsunami" of various irregular Mass Imigrants/Asylum Seakers totaling more than 750.000 in a few Months, (that the Turkish Government obviously abused as a "Blackmail" in order to Ask now from the EU to make several Concessions - Comp. Supra- as Sarkozy had already Denounced at the latest PanEuropean Congres in Madrid, Spain, of the EPP Party last October 2015), including at least 3 among ISIL's Terrorists who have just Killed many Civilian People in Paris after crossing in the EU through Turkey, in addition to the latest Turkish Attack Destroying a Russian which was Fighting against ISIL and other Extremist Islmamist Terrorist Gangs in Syria, after which 2 Russian Soldiers were Killed, (in such an Unprecedented Incident which has Not occured Before for at least 65 Years, since the 1950 Korea War !), instead of Helping, on the Contrary, Russia to Avenge the recent Murder by ISIL's Terrorists of about 200 Russian Civilian People (mostly Women and Children) last October in Egypt's Sinai where an ISIL Bomb Destroyed a Civilian Russian Airplane, kiling all its passengers...
Speaking, also now in the presence of the Biggest European Political Party's President, that of ChristianDemocrats/EPP; PJoseph Daul, who had arrived in a well guarded Strasbourg from a spectacularly immobilized Brussels, Sarkozy denounced, thus, "a Divided Europe, Disarmed, without (Political) Will, (which) made us more Vulnerable" :
- "I am a convinced pro-European, but I Hear the Revolt of the People". We (EU) "can't be Insensitive to the Peoples' Revolt", to what "fuels a more and more stronger Rejection, which provokes People's Revolt Everywhere in Europe !", he Warned.
- In the Past, "we wanted to Build the European Union, because we wanted to have a Tool to Defend, in this World, our Joint Idea of Civilisation, that 2 Horrible Wars, the Final Solution and Totalitarian regimes had almost Destroyed. ... During a too Long Period of Time, we have Dreamed of that Ideal Europe", Sarkozy reminded.
- "But we Suddenly Wake Up with anOther (a Different one), so Relentless to Erase a great part of the European History", he regretted.
- "In a lanscape Prepared since long by a Generation of thinkers belonging to the Influental Species of those that (French Writer and Philosopher Albert) Camus Accused to have "placed Nothing else in History, but Only ...their ArmChair" (Sic), "in the West, Forrgetting Everything, launched a "Tabula Rasa" Movement, of whch we are just Starting to measure the amplituide and its Horrible Connsequences", he denounced.
- Even if, former President of France, long-time Collaborator and Successor to General De Gaule, "Georges Pompidou used to say, with Wisdom, that a Country", as, particularly, all European Countries, (which notoriously have a more or less Long History, and vivid Culture), "is Not an Empty (Blanc) Page". "But, a Dominant Ideology, ... seeked, on the Contrary, to Impose the misconception that Everything that had been Written, should be Erased" : So that, "on a Blanc (Empty) Page, No more Nations, ... No more Borders, No more Identities, No more Links, No more Heritage : This revendicated Nothingness, prepared a Catastrophe", and, by an "Historic Irony, it's in our Old Continent (Europe), among our Old Countries,... that the Hardest Blows aggressed all the (Cultural and Historic) Heritage"....
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- "Europe is always my Ideal, But I DoN't Want it to become the Tool of our Renouncements", Sarkozy firmly reacted.
=> Therefore, "Such Circumstances, give us a Duty to ReAct, Before Wasting for ever the Treasure of Civilisation and Culture that the Previous Generations have entrusted to us", he warned.
=> "The Time has come to ReBuild Europe on New Foundations", Nicolas Sarkozy Strongly Urged.
- Because, "probably, we are facing one of the Biggest U-Turns of our History since the 2nd World War".
- Indeed, "It's High Time to Recognize that we Yielded Too Much to that Conformism, which, since 40 Years, Manipulates the Public Opinion and Masks the UnderGround Movements of Tragedies which Now pop up in front of our eyes" :
- In fact, "we (Europeans) have done that Same Error, as those who Survived the "Great War" (of 1914 - 1918), when they throught that it was the Last War", he Warned. "Similarly, we thought that we won't see, No More (Economic) Depression like that of the 1930ies, the Emergence of Extremisms, People Shot Dead at Cafés' Terraces in the middle of Paris, (as at the recent, November 2015 Terrorist Attacks), Wars of Religions, AntiSemitism, Europe covered up by Barbed Wires", (as nowadays, in several European Countries' attempts to Protect their Citizens and Society from that Unprecedented "Tsunami" of Massive Irregular Migration/Asylum Seekers' influx through Turkey, this Summer and Autumn 2015), etc.
- "Once the Cold War had Ended, we (Europeans) throught that History will Never become, anymore, Tragic, (before the 2014-2015 Ukranian conflict), that Violence and Rarety had been, at last, Defeated, and that, from Now on, Everything would be Regulated by Democracy and the Market". In consequence, "the West was Blinded by its Force, while, in fact, it was already Retreating World-wide, without even being conscious of that. It was Blinded by the (Past) Solidity of its Values and Institutions, while, in fact, they had already started to sway"...
- "It (Western Countries) became Deaf to some Voices which had risen to remind that Civilisation canNot be Only Material, that People Need, in order to Live and simply stay Humans, to Believe and Hope. That the Peoples, in order to be Actors of their own History, Needed a Transcedance, to adhere to a Great Ideal", Sarkozy observed.
- Therefore, "History's Lessons had no more any Meaning. No more Reason or Morals, Science and Religion, which Retreated in front of a Relativism claiming to Nivelate Everything. Culture Retreated Everywhere in front of Utilitarism, which asked from all Arts, Litterature, Poesy, Music, what they Served for, instead of Teaching how to Love them".
- Worst : "to those who dared Speak out in order to Try to Awaken the Consciences on the Dangers of that Intellectual, Cultural, Spiritual and Moral Disarmament, to which led that Nihilism, a Witches' Hunt was launched" :
+ F.ex., "Those who Defended the Family, were called "Petits Bourgeois" (Old-fashioned Middle-Class), he Denounced, spontaneously Applauded by Many French People, who haven't, cesrtainly, forgotten the 2013 - 2014 wide Popular Struggle for the Defense of Natural Family and Marriage, against a surprisingly Brutal Imposal of Controversial and UnPopular "Same Sex Mariage", even allowing to Subordinate Children Born by Other People to the Power of Homosexuals, under Pretext of "Adoptiion", with an obvious Risk to push towards Submitting the Procreation of Many Thousands of Human Beings to the Control of a Lobby of Technocrats, (by Opening a Way to Interest Groups for Artificial Procreation, In Vitro Fertilisation, PreNatal Screening, the InHuman Atrocity of "Surrogate Mothers", Trans-Plantation of Embryos, "Banks" of Sperm, Eggs, and/or Human Embryos, etc., instead of Natural Births, for which only Heterosexual, Man - Woman Couples are able. Sarkozy has recently Denounced the fact that, on this occasion, Surprusingly, some seem to have abused of the French Police in an attempt to "Humiliate the Families", and Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has recently expressed its "Concern" for Serious Misgivings particularly on so-callled "Punitive ID Checks" even of Peaceful Demonstrators, as well as agaist Controversial and Unpopular attempts to Impose a so-called "Gender Theory" even to Small Children at Primary Schools, etc. While, others, Today, regretted the Fact that a large part of the French Police was used in order to ...Arrest Peaceful Young Girls, Mothers, Elder People, etc, sitting or standing at Paris' pavements with Small Candles and Reading Poetry or Philosophy, etc, (the famous "Veilleurs" according to the Original Term in French;, which means Watchmen, or those who Look After something Important to Protect from Dangers), instead of Following and Preventing Extremist Islamic Terrorists linked to ISIL's atrocious BeHeaders to Mudrer in cold-blood Many Innocent Civilian People, just a Year later (from Jan. 2015)...
+ And "Those who said that we .. Needed Borders, were called "Petainists", (i.e. NAZIs' Colaborators). "Those who evoked Immigration as a Problem, were "Racists"". "Those who asked for "an Islam of France" (and/or of Europe), and who Denounced the Dangers of Communautarism (Socio-Cultural Ghettoisation), were "IslamoPhobes"". "Those who asked for our Children to Learn the History .. at School with its Chronology, who pointed at the Risks against (Social) Cohesion ... provoked also by the Weakening of (a Collective) Identity .. , who Wanted for a "House of History".. to be Built, were Treated as Fascists. Without forgetting with what Contempt were also Slandered those who Dared Criticize a Strategy of Over-Evaluated €uro", as he reminded.
>>> - "So Many Debates were Prohibited, so many Debates were Muzzled, so many Debates had become Impossible, at a period when, on the Contrary, it was Needed to Discuss, exchange Reasonable Arguments, Think Together to all the consequences of our Collective Choices", criticized Sarkozy on a Key, Structural Issue for Modern Societies. "While", on the Contary, "all Warnings should have been Taken into Account, all Alerts, which didn't lack, concerning the Dangerous Path in which was engaged our Country (France) and our Continent (Europe)"
=> Therefore, - "We (Europeans) must, at last, Hold all those Debates that we didn't manage to have" earlier, "and to learn the Lessons given by Recent History, concerning", f.ex., "what happened at the momernt of the (Global, US born) Financial Crisis on 2008, what happened with the Greek (Debt) Crisis", (in fact looming since the 1980ies, but Hidden since 2000, in order to ease a "Socialist" former Prime Minister's Electoral chances by accepting for Greece to Enter €uroZone Too Early, i.e. even Without Making previously the Necessary Reforms, in Exchange of his Silence and Compliity in the Controversial and UnPopular "Candidate" Status to EU Accession, given then to Turkey, with all the Political and Economic Setbacks which were Provoked afterwards), "whzt happened with the (so-called) Refugee Crisis, (i.e. that Unprecedented, Sudden Influx of more than 800.000 Irregular Mass Immigrants/Asylum Seekers rushing through Turkey to trespass EU's External Borders in Greece, this Summer-Autumn 2015, Ankara exerting now a "Blackmail" against the EU, by asking Money, EU Accession push, and Visa-Free entries for 73 Millions of Turks, etc, as Sarkozy already Denounced at recent ChristianDemorat/EPP Party's Summit, last October 2015 in Spain), and "with Terrorism", he concluded, (obviously pointing mainly at the Series of Merah, Charflie Hebdo, and Bataklan, etc. Murders of Civilian People by Extreme Islamic Terrorists of ISIL's atrocious BeHeaders in France, on 2012 and 2015, to which were added even more in Brussels, London, Copenhagen, Salzburg, etc, while Turkey was Attacking and Killing Syrian a.o. Kurds who Fought, in Alliance with Western Countries, against ISIL's Terrorists at the Northern Syrian Borders towards Turkey, and nowadays even a Russian Airplane and an Helicopter while they were Fighting against ISIL's and other such Terrorist Armed, Deadly Gangs in Syria, etc).
=> - Today, (in real Practice, especially after the recent Paris and other Terrorist Attacks), - "We Have to Make War to the "Islamic State"" Terrorists, (atrocious BeHeaders and Mass Killers even of defenseless, innocent Civilian People), "starting by Calling them by their Name, and using All Means of War. Otherwise, Chaos will expand even more, the Crisis of Refugees will Destabilize Europe, and Terrorism will persist to feed itself at this Poisonous source", he Warned.
- "But, we won't cease to be Vulnerable aux Horrible Disorders of the World, if We doN't Oppose them, but Only the Forces of Police and Bombs".
>>> - On the Contrary, "We Must become Able to Oppose to them, also a Unity, a Cohesion, a Solidarity, Founded on a common Hope, a Shared Pride to be Citizens of a Great Country" and of Europe, "which has Given Great Services to Humanity", Sarkozy pointed out, making a Key point of obviously Crucial Importance.
=> In consequence, "at this Moment of Doubt and Anxiety, it's just One Idea which Must Guide us : Give to all Citizens" of France (and Europe), "whatever might be their Beliefs, their Origins, their Personal History", our Traditional Values, (alias "la France de toujours": i.e. Eternal France/Eternal Europe). "Which are Not withOut any Change, withOut any Movement, But (on the Contrary) Alive, Evolving, Enriched by what they are Given, Progressing, Growing thanks to the Ideas, the Feelings, and that so Special Genius which Always allowed to ReBound and Rise Up, when some believed them killed".
- "Our Traditional Values", (as of "eternal France"), "is what we have Best to Offer to Our Children, and to Those Who Want to Share our Destiny". Because "Nobody can pretend to Share our Destiny, withOut Endorsing these Values", Sarkozy stressed. - We ("France" and Europe) "are Not a <<Super-Market>>, where one may Choose whatever he likes". On the Contrary, "they are a Whole, which can be Adopted as such, and to which eachone Brings his Contribution. These Values shouldn't have been Cheeply Sold, sometimes even Denied".
- Because "there is No More an Identity... in a Society which has become Multi-Cultural. There is No more an Identity ... If we do Not Share Moral Values, a Way of Life, a Kindness, a Feeling of Common Belonging ..., to have a History, .. a Joint Dream, and have Solidarity not only in the Greatest Success, but also in the Worst Challenges".
- "It's on those Values, from which we have drifted away (Comp. Supra), that we are going to Have to ReBuild ANew Education, Institutions, Society, Justice, Law, and Politics". -For that purpose, "we Need Order, Authority and to Be Firm", but also "Justice, Generosity, Faithfulness to ourselves and to Humanity" , Sarkozy urged ambitiously.
- "If we aren't Able to ReConcile these Needs, if we don't have enough Intelligence, Courage, Force, Will and Heart, in order to Change our ways of Thinking, Seeing and Acting, we won't meet this Historic Rendez-vous", he warned.

>>> - Today, "We have an Historic Opportunity to ReBuild a Brotherhood of Nation" and Europe, and "we do Not have the Right to Miss that", he resumed in Conclusion, widely applauded by a lot of Stimulated People.
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Significantly, even if Sarkozy had officialy come here Today in order to Support Alsace Region's President, former Minister, Philippe Richert, for the forthcoming Elections of December 2015 in the New, Greater Region ACAL, which Links Together 5 Bordering Countries at the Heart of Europe, (Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg, (Comp. f.ex. : .......), despite Security Concerns after the Paris' Massacres, which had Suspended most Public Meetings, the Main thrust of his Speech obviously went much Further than Richert's observation that, according to recent Polls, a Majority of Citizens appreciates his Management of Alsace, while, on the Contrary, they disaprove that of Lorraine and Champagne-Ardennes, in the two other parts of that Future (2016) Greater Region ACAL, which is due to Unite them all three Together : On the contrary, the Experienced France's main Opposition Leader, and former President of the Country, obviously prefered to Focus mainly on National and, even more, European topical Issues, clearly indicating that the People feel an Urgent Need for the EU to Move on certain Key Issues.
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Benedict's "Source" to revitalize Europe : - "The World needs Hope", Pope says, calling to relaunch E.U. via Human Rights !
Paris - Lourdes - Strasbourg : 12 - 17 September 2008.
The vital need to re-launch Europe can be succesfully met by defending fundamental Human Rights of the People, said Pope Benedict XVI in his 1st speech in France, at his meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently chairs the EU.
Sarkozy replied by welcoming Christian and other religions' contribution to indispensable Public Debates on crucial issues which affect Human Dignity, Europe, even Humankind, as BioGenetics.
- "When Europeans will see and personally experience that the inalienable Rights of the Human Person .., those of their free Education, their Family life, their Work, ..their Religious Rights, ..are respected and promoted, then, these Europeans will fully understand the greatness of the European construction and will be actively involved in it", Benedict XVI stressed.
- "It's important that during France's EU Presidency, there is, indeed, a desire for the Church to contribute to protect Human Person's integrity, and I think that there is also a growing Conscience, beyond any polemics, to defend Human Rights, and, thus, contribute to ensure respect for Human Dignity", added to "EuroFora" the Pope's Spokesman, Vatican's Press Director Federico Lombardi.
- "Nobody really told us here that Lisbon Treaty was good for this or that reason to the People. They only told us that we "had" to ratify it, and tried to scare us, but failed", said 2 Irish pilgrims to "EuroFora", after 2 Majority Abstentions in 1999 and 2004 EU Elections and 3 "NO" to Referenda in France and the Netherlands in 2005, followed by the Irish "No" in 2008, during a Decade of EU Crisis since the controversial Turkey EU- bid (1999-2008).
More than .."224 cases of Murders, Torture, "Disappearancies" or Destructions" by "agents of Turkish Security forces", where all those responsible for so heavy Crimes still remain scandalously unpunished, despite regular condemnations of Ankara by Strasbourg''s European Court of Human Rights from 1996 to 2008, were examined the same week by CoE's Ministers, who decided to launch a fresh call "urging" the Turkish Authorities to end this dangerous "virtual Impunity" of criminals, without comparison to European countries.
- "Why not Ukraine, instead of Turkey ?", asked EuroFora a Journalist from "Kiev : the city where it's enough to cross the streets in order to realize that it's a European town", as Sarkozy recently said, before solemnly declaring this week, together with Ukranian President Jushenko and EU Commission's chair Baroso, EU's "recognition that Ukraine is a fully European Country, linked to Europe by culture and History".

Europe's "Christian roots" and Values, with "openess and mutual respect" to other cultures and beliefs, were highlighted by Sarkozy in harmony with Benedict XVI.
The Human person should be protected "from his inception until his natural death", added the Pope, faithful to BioEthic principles defended by his predecessor and collaborator, John Paul II, of topical importance in France, Europe and the World today, as Sarkozy announced :
- "Fast and important progres in Genetic Science and procreation raise delicate BioEthical Questions to our Democracies", which "involve our view of Humans and Life, and can lead to Social Mutations. That's why they cannot remain only a business of experts", hestressed.
- "It's Politician's responsibility to set a proper framework for such Public Debates", as "France will do on BioEthics in 2009". "Religious and Philosophic traditions must take part, with their ideas and centuries' long experience : A positive Laicity is an open invitation to Dialogue", he said.
- "France engaged in Europe at another Debate on how to make Financial Capitalism more moral", and the "Social doctrine of the Church fits well what is at stake in modern Globalized Economy"
- "But, a "Real Dialogue is not for an elite of a Globalized world : It penetrates deep into the People : That's why Churches should actively participate : .. It's bringing New Oxygen to Public Debates", stressed Sarkozy.
- "Democracy must not be cut off Reason", which is "compatible with Faith", thanks to "the meeting between Christianism and Greek philosophy ", he added, referring to Pope's views. "It means to advance with logic arguments, search what's best and respect common principles of thinking :... It's an everyday need for Public Administration and the Political Debate", he added.
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Pope Benedict's 1st visit to France looked like the start of a brillant, manifold demonstration that this was well-founded and could become true in the lives of the People : After its Theoretical foundations unfolded at a "speech to the world of Culture", inaugurating Bernadins' cultural centre, and its dogmatic instrument shaped at an address to the Clergy in the Historic Notre Dame' Cathedral, he started to resolutely reach out to the People :

The move went upwards like Bach's music : Begining with a call to more than fifteen thousand enthousiastic Youngsters gathered at Notre Dame's parvis with overnight celebrations, it gained strength in an impressive open-air Mass at Paris'central Invalides'area facing Alexander III's bridge, attended by more than 150.000 people, French Prime Minister Fillon, many Ministers, Foreign Ambassadors, etc, and culminated in a series of pan-European Mega-meetings at Lourdes 150th anniversary, together with all French Bishops, EU Commission's vice-Chairman Barrot, and some 200.000 enthousiastic People from all over Europe and beyond : After a Sea of Lights astonishingly braved Saturday Night's rain, an open-air mass at riverside fields among Pyrenees' Mountains Sunday Morning, was followed on Monday by a Sea of "Compassion" to those facing Health or Life threats, surrounded by an endless gathering of People, whose gigantic dimensions obviously surprised the organisers..
Meanwhile, Benedict had the occasion to speak to the French Priests at Notre Dame of Paris, and with the Bishops at Lourdes, where they prepare a crucial November plenary meeting, due to take important decisions on imminent EU debates and choices about Europe's identity, BioEthics, etc.
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- "A new way of thinking about Laicity has become necessary", agreed the Pope with President Sarkozy at Elysee. While keeping the "distinction between Politics and Religion, to guarantee Citizens' Liberty", "religion is important for shaping Consciousness and contributing, together with others, to create a basic Ethical Consensus in society".
- "Searching Essential realities", (as "God" for christians), needs "Speech : "Logos" in greek, i.e. Reason", "able to shape a Community","with creative work transforming Human History". But "Dialogue" is instrumental for "Reason", because it's the way to "search" for Truth", in "Liberty", according to Greek Platonic Philosophy, with Socrates' dialectics. "Reason" implies "Spirit and Liberty", hence the polyphonic "Music" of "Dialogue", in a responsible, "well balanced" way, to avoid "destruction".
Starting with a "Dialogue between christians and intellectual or artistic movements" highlighted at Bernardins' Cultural Center. with former Presidents Chirac and Giscard d'Estain, UNESCO's chair Anastassopoulos, etc., as well as representatives of Muslim Communities, (including a separate Turkish), after contacts with Jews at Vatican's Embassy, the Pope turned towards the People :
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To French Priests : "Church built on the rock" !
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- Speaking to thousands of French Priests at Notre Dame's Cathedral, Benedict highlighted a solid "Church built on the Rock" of conscious and active persons, transmitting "a lively, energetic and sharp" "God's Speech, actively working on Human History".
"Praying together" with "representatives of Christian Churches and ecclesiastic communities", (as Orthodoxes, Armenians, Protestants, etc), he called "to reinforce the Unity of the church", against "any form of Division", around Holy Spirit', "the Word","Christ's Justice", and "Love" to fellow- humans : Essentials which "resume all holy scripts", as he said.
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To Young People : "New Horizons"
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To some 15.000 enthousiastic Young People at Notre Dame's parvis, along Seine's river, Benedict spoke about "the Energy of the Holy Spirit" and "the Mystery of the Cross" : - "The Holy Spirit opens New Horizons to Human Intelligence .. and makes it conscious of the real greatness of Christ's sacrifice, dying and resurecting for World's life".
Some "may slander you as crazy, laugh at you, or even persecute you. But, "the Holy Cross is a symbol of God's love", and "givesmoral strength" : "Witness of People's pains, it's at the same time, a precious, unique expression of their Hopes", he told them at Paris' dawn.
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Invalides' plateau : "People chosen to become God's friends"
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At the 1st open-air Mass in Paris' center area of Invalides, facing the Grand Palais, along the river Seine, during an impressive gathering of more than 150.000, French Prime Minister Fillon, Ministers Alliot-Marie, Bachelot, Dati, Jouyet, Assembly's President Accoyer, Senate's Chair Poncelet, former 1st Lady Bernadette Chirac, former Prime Minister Raffarin, many foreign Ambassadors, and other political personalities were present. (While earlier, from the Socialist opposition, Paris' Mayor Delanoye, artist Robert Hussein a.o. assisted at the Elysee meeting).
But the "Entry Song" focused on the "People chosen to become God's Friends". The September 11 mass was Dedicated to "Saint Chrysostomus, that great priest of Constantinople", with his "wonderful eloquence and great courage to face challenges", who "made out of despaired and godless people, a people of brothers", opening a possibility to "become all one complete entity", as Pope Benedict reminded.
- "Reason never enters in real contradiction with Faith", stressed Pope Benedict, who prepared his speeches for France during a short Summer rest at Brixen/Bressanone's Seminar, whose Library honors both "Faith and Science".. - "We must use not only our Reason, but also our Faith" : "Get away from Idolatry", "cupidity", "avidity for money, power or even knowledge deviating from essential aims", and other "falses appearances". and "build your Home on the Rock", "with the force that Holy Spirit gives to those who let it act in them", he said to the People of Paris.
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Benedict at Lourdes : - "Become Light (even) in the Dark !"
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- "Our World needs Hope", stressed Pope Benedict, addressing an impressive TorchLight procession at Lourdes' sanctuaries, where a Sea of Lights held by Hundreds of Thousands of People gathered at Pyrenee's Mountains from all over Europe astonishingly kept their flames despite a heavy Rain at a windy Dark Night...
- "150 years earlier (1858 - 2008), ..here, in the cave, ... a simple young girl, Bernadette .. saw a Light". "The everyday life of her Family was, however, made of Misery, Sadness, Sickness, Misunderstandings, Rejection and Poverty... It was hard to live in Jail". Today, "we think to all Human Beings who suffer : The innocent Victims who face Violence, War, Terrorism, Hunger, Injustices, Catastrophes, Hate and Oppression, Violations of Human Dignity and of their fundamental Rights, of their Liberty to act and think. We also think to those who face Familial problems, sufferings from Unemployment, Sickness, Infirmity, Isolation, or their situation as Immigrants, without forgetting those who suffer and die for the name of Christ", he said.
- "But the Shadows of the Earth, did not hinder Sky's Light to shine : <<The Light shines in the Dark>>" ..."A Way full of Light opens in Human History even in its Darkest moments" : ..."As Night falls, Christ tels us : <<- Keep your Lamps alight !>>."Hold a Light while walking in the Night .. sums up our condition as Christians on their way : "We need light, and we are called to become Light !", Benedict stressed to People setting in motion Lights, Flags and Songs with enthousiasm.
"<<- She looked at me as a Person, who speaks to another Person>>, the poor girl had noted."Light emerges from such a Dialogue", stressed the Pope : "A small Flame called Hope, Compassion and Tenderness dwells inside those who return after being moved by Lourdes' experience". "Christ .. entrusts us with the Mission to let the Light of Charity shine : To make of our Prayers an Act of Love to our brothers and to Fraternal Charity", he concluded.
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