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Badde, Paul
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
A paradigm change in the UK
Opposition to Catholic Rome has long been state doctrine in the UK. For that reason the Pope's visit ushers in a paradigm change in English history, writes the conservative daily Die Welt: "In 1982, at the height of the Falklands War, John Paul II flew once as a mediator to England and Argentina. But that was a pastoral trip that cannot be compared with the historic steps that Benedict XVI will be taking in the days to come. ... Because in a unique way England recognises in the Pope the challenge posed by a part of itself from which it has become estranged: the larger European dimension of its history and its deepest and oldest strata. In his four days in the UK Benedict XVI will hold 13 talks, and every one of his words will be carefully weighed. Because even the religious Anglicans have long been a minority in the UK. Of 60 million Britons 25 million belong to the Church of England, and around six million are Catholics."
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Italy moves a step closer to normality
Italy has lost part of its special status in Europe with the decision to strip Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of his legal immunity, writes Paul Badde in the conservative daily Die Welt: "With this decision Italy will move one step closer to normality, one could say, and one step closer to Europe as well. And at the same time it will also distance itself from one aspect of its heritage, for example the memory of the sovereign Borgia Pope Alexander VI, who was morally abominable in many respects but also an excellent and astute politician when it came to furthering the issues and interests of his realm."
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