Other files in English:
“Liberal Principles Compared”, Giulio Ercolessi’s contribution to the Summer Seminar 2011, held in Doorn (Utrecht) on September 7-9th 2011, organised by the European Liberal Forum with the support of the International Democratic Initiative and Hans van Mierlo foundation. This text is part of the book edited by Maartje Jansen, Anne van Veenstra and Gosse Vuijk, The Hague 2012.
Video file: “Secularism and
Separation of
Church and State in Europe”, within the seminar “Direitos Individuais na Europa”, organised by
the European Liberal Forum with the support of the Portuguese Movimento
Liberal
Social, of the Catalan Fundació Catalanista i Democrata and
of fondazione
Critica liberale, Lisbon, November 17th
2011.
“A Liberal contribution to a Common European Civic Identity”, edited by Ingemund Hägg, published by the European Liberal Forum, Brussels 2008, 37 pages. This publication includes an introduction by Giulio Ercolessi and Ingemund Hägg, and Giulio Ercolessi’s contribution to the Barcelona June 2008 ELF conference. Not for sale, but downloadable free of charge from the ELF web site (pdf, 800 KB).
“Secularism,
Women &
The State. The
Mediterranean World in the 21st Century”, edited by Barry
A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, published by the Institute for the Study
of
Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut,
2009, 264 pages. The volume includes a chapter
by Giulio
Ercolessi, “Italy:
The
Contemporary Condition of Italian Laicità” and can be downloaded or
purchased in paperback from the ISSSC Trinity College site.
“Separation of Church and State in Europe. With views on Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Greece”, edited by Fleur de Beaufor, Ingemund Hägg, Patrick van Schie, published by the European Liberal Forum, Brussels 2008, 190 pages. The volume includes the introduction by Giulio Ercolessi and Ingemund Hägg, “Towards Religious Neutrality of Public Institutions in Europe”, a chapter on Italy by Giulio Ercolessi, “Italy: born as a Secular State in the XIX Century, back to a Clerical Future in the XXI Century?” and “A Note on Recent Developments in France” by Giulio Ercolessi e Ingemund Hägg. This publication was funded by the European Parliament and is not for sale, but can be downloaded free of charge from the ELF web site (pdf, 1.05 MB) or requested in paperback, upon payment of the postage cost in stamps (2 euros inside Italy, subject to variation of the postal tariff for books), from Fondazione Critica liberale, Via delle Carrozze 19, I-00187 Roma.
“Religion, Secularism and European Integration”. European Liberal Forum seminar on “Churches and States in the Civic Identity Process”, June 26th2008, premises of the Representation of the European Commission in Barcelona. Opening conference speech by Giulio Ercolessi (Text). (Audio file here).
