CofE bishops press for a greener EU budget

by Daniel Blake
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

As the European Commission continues its consultation on the EU Budget, bishops in the Church of England are pushing for a greener budget that will take as its basis the biblical principle of stewardship.

In a submission to the European Commission’s Budget Review, the House of Bishops’ Europe Panel chided the European Union for failing to provide sufficiently for the European common good, saying that the current budget does not match up to the EU’s objectives. the rest