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La Vie - Francia | 19/12/2007

Christmas, a lasting tradition

The Christian weekly has carried out a survey to measure how well the French know Jesus Christ. Jean-Pierre Denis analyses the results. "Only one out of three people can precisely date the birth of Jesus. In this pervasive cultural fog, it is not surprising that, for many, Christmas has become a pagan celebration where consummation is supposed to relieve all of our existential anxiety. Is this despairing? It isn't as simple as that. We can see quite clearly in this survey how much French people' relation to Christianity is changing. It is weakening in some respects, but it also becoming less negative than is commonly thought. The desire to know more is more pronounced too, very much so. Two thirds of the French would like their children to know about the life of Jesus. Even among those who say they have no religion, this desire for culture is also very present."

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La Vie - Francia | 11/10/2007

Will the reform treaty help the EU?

For Jean-Pierre Denis, the mini-treaty does not simplify relations within the EU: "The Union is in the grip of a terrible stranglehold, seized by an evermore irresolvable contradiction: constrained by the public to offer surface simplifications, it can only apply them through complication and fussy, sometimes downright twisted legal quarrying. But the after effect of well-meaning and obscure technical-political measures is always a tendency towards scepticism. This perverse spiral is working more than ever. In its form as much as in its contents, the simplified treaty will be terribly complicated, much more incomprehensible even than the Constitution project."

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La Vie - Francia | 27/09/2007

Jean-Pierre Denis believes in the dissident power of religion

"In our societies fuelled by having, faith is often only considered as a disruptive and destructive force", notes Jean-Pierre Denis, chief editor of the Catholic weekly. "It is true that Islamist terrorism has forcefully contributed to this, transforming religious energy into a weapon of massive intimidation. Animated with a positive and vital energy, the monks of Rangoon [In Burma] are thus doing everyone a universal favour. They are not destroying anything, but are putting things straight and back into perspective on the scale of the planet and of all civilizations. Their peaceful procession shows the dissident and positive power of real spirituality, the kind that carries society's deep aspirations without claiming power. Bare-foot religion has no weapons, but it remains, after the death of ideologies, the only force capable of viscerally gripping a population."

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La Vie - Francia | 14/08/2007

Who benefits from the stock market crisis?

For the editorialist Jean-Pierre Denis, the current stock market crisis "illustrates the extent to which [the] race for prosperity puts us all, rich and poor, in a situation of close mutual dependence. ... The most surprising lesson has been drawn from this realisation: seeing as we are all interdependent, nothing should be supervised or controlled. ... The cold, infallible logic of stock markets is assumed. ... [This] incites evermore costly risk-taking. The certitude that central institutions will always be ready to cough-up crazy sums of money in order to bring business back to normal is an incentive to crime. There will be a price to pay for this lesson: so far, almost 200 billion euros for Europeans [the sum of liquidity injected by the European Central Bank last week]. Who hasn't got a little voice in their head pointing out how this money could have been used to alleviate some of the planet's misery?"

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La Vie - Francia | 16/03/2007

Europe on the eve of its 50th birthday

Jean-Pierre Denis, chief editor of the weekly, reminds us that "it is because our continent was fatally wounded that it created the union, a utopian gesture, an impossible bet waged against the selfishness of civilisations in the name of their very own interests. Despite this, Europe has rarely loved itself and if until now it has always known how to project itself into the future it has done so jerkily and with wobbly compromises, empty chair policy and botched summits. Now that, for the first time in History, nations are willingly sharing their sovereignty, this laborious audacity, this mixture of stasis and big strides is becoming wearying. In a way, Europe is doing so well that this doesn't show anymore. It need only turn to other projects now."

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