Brussels, 15/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - Some 18 representatives of philosophical non-confessional organisations met in Brussels on 15 October with the presidents of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, and the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, to discuss how to tackle poverty and exclusion.
The meeting took place for the first time against the backdrop of the new Lisbon Treaty, which foresees in Article 17 that the EU “maintains an open,...