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Polly Toynbee on the Vatican, democracy and human rights

"Religion is gaining ground again," notes British columnist Polly Toynbee. She is alarmed by the proposal of certain European politicians to enshrine Christian values in the European constitution. "Only recently Pope Benedict strongly criticised the Berlin Declaration marking the EU's 50th anniversary for excluding a mention of God and Europe's 'Christian roots'. Benedict called this a form of 'apostasy', saying Europeans were straying from their faith. Yet the Holy See has no right to determine the values of the European Union. The Vatican is the only state in Europe that has not signed the European Convention on Human Rights. This is a fundamental criterion for joining the EU. Turkey has - with some difficulty - fulfilled this criterion to obtain access to Europe. The Holy See, on the other hand, would have been disqualified from the very start because the Vatican is not a democracy."

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