Europe as a Common

To cope with the problems of today's world, we need to enter into a dialogue regardless of political, religious and philosophic beliefs. A 'transversal dialogue' as Pope Francis called for in the private audience, he granted Alexis Tsipras, Walter Baier and Franz Kronreif in September 2014. This conversation resulted in the 'DIALOP initiative' - a transversal dialogue between Socialists and Christians. Meanwhile, a network of universities and NGOs explore ways of what they call a transversal social ethics. In this book authors from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Vatican present their view on topics like social equality. European Unity, democracy, commons and ecology.

Walter Baier, * 1954, economist, until 2006 chairman of the KPOe (Austrian Communist Party) and since then head of transform!europe - European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue. Franz Kronreif, * 1951, architect, urban planner, and theologian, responsible for dialogue with non-religious people, in the Focolare Movement until 2014, is one of the coordinators in the DIALOP initiative.