The Vatican And The European Union

If you are British, the Vatican is probably the safest place to debate with participants from the 26 member states the future of the European Union. We were attending a conference there last week, an unusual mix of former and present EU officials, bishops, cardinals, MEPs, national parliamentarians, civil society leaders and academics, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, some 350 in all. It was a daunting task to explain how Britain's future was now being decid