Brussels, 13/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Network Against Racism (ENAR), which brings together 600 European NGOs, is worried by the current controversy over an explicit reference to religion in the future EU constitution. (see EUROPE of 31 October, p.6, for the initiative by Friedrich and Wuermeling, and 1 November, p.4, on the stance of the European episcopate). Christianity has provided a decisive contribution to the European identity, "but then so has Judaism and Islam, both present for centuries on European soil", comments Bashy Quraishy, ENAR President. Then, noting that Europe is becoming "increasingly multicultural and multireligious", he considers that such an important Constitutional text "should either find a wording which pays tribute to the existing variety of spiritual riches, or not mention spiritual values altogether".