"The vision for Europe needs to renew its commitment to true subsidiarity. Having structures of economic, political and social relationships that liberate subsidiarity will make accepting complexity more realistic. It seems to me that current debates about what Europe is have fallen into the trap of equating strength and unity with simplicity. As I have just said, the opposite seems to be true. Attempts to explain European structures and identity with a single overarching story have ended in failure because they have not allowed sufficient flexibility for these structures to be lived out below the continental level."
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Justin Welby
GCVO PC (born 6 January 1956) is the 105th and the most senior bishop in the Church of England. Welby was the vicar of , , and most recently was the , serving for just over a year. As Archbishop of Canterbury he is the and the symbolic head of the worldwide .
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