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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8374
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/european convention/poland

08/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - In an interview granted to the Polish Catholic agency, KAI, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, Head of the Polish Church, raised the question of the "nervousness with which one (Ed.: at the European Convention) defends oneself against any invocation of the name of God" in the future EU Constitution. The Primate went on to consider that "it would appear that fundamental faith is drafted by people whose opinions are far from those of average Europeans, who, on the whole, are believers. We are therefore faced with violation of democracy by the elite". We recall that the Polish Church is divided over the prospect of Warsaw's membership to the EU, but that, at the instigation of Pope Jean-Paul II, it will call for people to vote at the referendum planned for June.

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