In a press briefing with India just a few days ago, several
different members of civil society (from environmental groups or the press) asked the same question in an accusatory tone: why won't India comply with the EU's «legally - binding treaty»?
In the Protestant tradition sin has perverted the moral law
of creation more radically and therefore takes a more pragmatic approach to the laws needed in
different historical situations for the preservation
of civil society, its individual
members and its basic institutions.