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In 1992, EU Commission President Jacques Delors said at a meeting of the Conference of European Churches that if, over the next ten years, Europe was not imbued with a soul, meaning that it would acquire a spirituality and a deeper sense of the reason for its existence, the game would be over. He added that he would therefore like to revive the intellectual and spiritual debate on Europe.
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Baudenbacher, C. (2019). “Two Souls in Europe’s Breast”. In: Judicial Independence. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02308-9_32
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