"God wants us in a united Europe" - Glemp

The influential Roman Catholic church yesterday sent the clearest sign yet that it wants a June referendum on joining the European Union to be su ccessful. "I believe... that God wants us to be in a united Europe. It would be bad if that did not happen," Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the country's top churchman, told reporters. "I believe that it is God's design that European nations... co-operate after the experience of so many wars," he added. The cardinal deplored plans of the Convention on the Future of Europe, led by former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaign to omit any mention of God in a planned constitutional treaty for the EU. The Convention, a forum mapping out the EU's institutional shape after ten new members join the 15-nation bloc, is to make its final proposals in the second quarter of 2003. (Reuters) A.K.