Today, we all see that Ukraine and the European Union are at different stages of their economic, social, and ultimately civilizational development. Today, the EU looks well-fed and self-satisfied, and…
Due to the traditional distrust of the state among Ukrainians, which was provoked by the long colonial past and the shortcomings of the Ukrainian bureaucracy after independence, there is a…
For centuries, Ukraine did not have its own state to protect the interests of the Ukrainian nation. Different occupation regimes had different effects on Ukrainians. The last most negative occupation…
According to the former French socialist prime minister Guy Mollet, the Christian democratic movement as a political force “should not exist at all” because of the significant heterogeneity of its…
For a person of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Christian parties with their almost complete infrastructure-their own professional associations, a network of charitable and philanthropic organizations, their own…
Most ideologies have their own ideal of a “bright future” – a utopia of a perfect society where progress will reign, there will be no destructive forces, and everyone will…
In the Netherlands, where Christian parties have been influencing the work of the government since the beginning of the twentieth century, the influential center-right conservative party Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)…
Recently, European countries celebrated the anniversary of the creation of the EU, which is generally dated back to May 9, 1950, when the Schuman Declaration, a plan to create a…
The main unifying idea of the CDU was the Christian basis, which turned out to be the only ideology in the country that was not discredited after the defeat of…
Christian democracy and conservatism stand out among the socio-political forces that advocate preservation and development instead of destruction for the sake of change. These two ideologies are so close and…