Vatican City, Feb 28, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Today, the Vatican made public an address given by Archbishop Juliusz Janusz, head of the Holy See delegation to the 14th Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Regional and Local Government.
The meeting was held in Budapest, Hungary, on February 24 and 25, and the Archbishop’s talk was given in English.
In his address, Archbishop Janusz, apostolic nuncio to Hungary, affirmed that the "reason that public administration exists ... is to serve the human being at every level of a State in order to build a more free and responsible society."
"Good local and regional governance," the archbishop continued, "is indeed the 'conditio sine qua non' for local and regional authorities to faithfully keep to their mission of serving the common good of the communities.”