Abstract
In 2007, the EU's attention was focused on its 'Year of Intercultural Dialogue'. Space was created for the religious communities to participate in the dialogue but little attention was paid to the collective experience of over fifty years of intercultural dialogue, conducted by the Conference of European Churches, the Catholic Bishops Conference, and other pan-European Christian bodies. This chapter argues that the EU failed to exercise a role as a cultural dialogue partner (despite the secular cultural values it tends to assume as normative) and embraced uncritically the role of arbiter. This characteristic stance undermines the ability of the EU to understand its religiously-inspired interlocutors.
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