Vatican City, Sep 6, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The fifteenth economic forum promoted by the Study Institute for Eastern Europe opens this evening in Krynica, Poland, on the theme "European Challenges: the model and frontiers of Europe."
The forum is being attended by numerous intellectuals, scientists, businessmen, politicians, economists, representatives from the world of communications and from non-governmental organizations from various European, Asian and American countries.
Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, president of the Pontifical Council "Justice and Peace," will address the opening greeting to participants, among them Lech Walesa, former prime minister of Poland, and Yuliya Tymoshenko, Mikulas Dzurinda and Marek Belka, prime ministers respectively of Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland. Cardinal Martino is also scheduled to participate in the ensuing debate on the theme: "Christian ethics and the spirit of post- industrial capitalism."