The Economic, Social and Spiritual Situation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Light of the Catholic Social Thought

«It is important that today too there should be no lessening of the desire for serene and constructive discussions between states. It is clear, though, that relationships within the international community, and the multilateral system as a whole, are experiencing a period of difficulty, with the resurgence of nationalistic tendencies at odds with the vocation of the international Organizations to be a setting for dialogue and encounter for all countries... The global dimension has therefore to be considered without ever losing sight of the local. As a reaction to a "spherical" notion of globalization, one that levels differences and smooths out particularities, it is easy for forms of nationalism to reemerge. Yet globalization can prove promising to the extent that it can be "polyhedric", favouring a positive interplay between the identity of individual peoples and countries and globalization itself, in accordance with the principle that the whole is greater than the part».

(Pope Francis)