Justin Welby Quotes

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National and regional economic policy must be reimagined - realigned - to liberate human flourishing. The means being concerned with growing inequality across the continent - not only in incomes, but also in wealth, health, education and many more areas.

Justin Welby
Europeans are fairly similar, we say, perhaps subconsciously. We generally look the same, dress the same, our past times and interests tend to overlap. Many of our cities look the same, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. But I would argue that these common features only amount to a superficial likeness. We face each other, and see something familiar, but we do not interrogate more deeply into whether this superficiality leads to a deeper cultural likeness.

Justin Welby
On the one hand we look at the progress since the war and see a huge increase in the material wellbeing in the vast majority of Europeans. But on the other we see policies that are pushing and keeping large sections of entire countries in increasingly desperate circumstances, with no apparent vision for how the circumstance might be overcome.

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We have not experienced religion as a contributing factor in global politics since the Wars of Religion in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Justin Welby
When we look at the progress made since the end of the Second World War, it is hard to argue that economically, European cooperation has been anything other than a great success. Of course, since 2008, this has not been the whole story. In Southern Europe particularly, talk of economic success would be met with confusion and anger.

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Complexity means recognising difference and valuing it. Europe is not the United States of America. It is not a nation state at this point. It is a collection of states with some common culture and some very different cultural aspects. To that, we must also add an unbelievably bloody history. Building a good Europe - which must be the goal of a vision based in the common good, therefore means addressing complexity - accepting it, and embracing it.

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