[GSlob]

Europe has to figure out how to get the UK out, and how to get the Ukraine and Russia in.
To an extent that "Europe" is synonymical with Huntington's "Western civ", admitting anything non-token from "Orthodox civ" [in Huntington's nomenclature] would be suicidal for Europe.

[Lessismore]

To an extent that "Europe" is synonymical with Huntington's "Western civ", admitting anything non-token from "Orthodox civ" [in Huntington's nomenclature] would be suicidal for Europe.

I wouldn't agree. The collapse of communism has allowed the reintegration of the Catholic countries of eastern Europe with the European main stream. In the North of Europe, traditional Protestantism of the Lutheran and continental Calvinist forms has essentially died of old age. In the East, communism has attenuated Orthodoxy. The time is right for a modern ecumenical synthesis that will encompass all of continental Europe. Ultimately, the gap between London and Paris will be found greater than the gap between Warsaw and Kiev.