The last time a Pope addressed the parliament in Strasbourg was in 1988 when an Iron Curtain still divided the continent. John Paul II told the European Union at the time that it was “a beacon of civilization.” A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history. “The great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions,” said the Argentinian-born pontiff.
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