European Union has its own day of rest?

[Reddogs]

European Union has its own day of rest?

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I was reading through some stories on Sabbath when this one jumped out at me. I didnt know they are designation which day is their 'day of rest', has anyone heard about this...

"...The European Union has set up the policy that every member-state must have one day of rest during the week. But the policy explicitly states that the designated day need not be Sunday, since for reasons of "religious pluralism" a nation's government might choose another day.

In Italy, the designation of Sunday as a "day of rest" was first set in 1993. That policy was changed in 2000, however, when-- in order to grant more flexibility for employers-- the nation required only that every employer produce workers with a 24-hour rest period each week. But by August 2003, under the new European policy, Italy will again be required to fix a certain "day of rest." In an interview with the daily Corriere della Sera, Bishop Giancarlo Bregantini-- who heads a committee dealing with social issues for the Italian bishops' conference-- remarked that attitudes on the observance of the Sabbath are "already bad enough" without a change in national policy. He said that any move away from the Sunday rest would be "a perverse act." And Cardinal Pio Laghi, the former prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, asked La Repubblica: "How can you overlook the fact that Sunday is a special day for millions of Europeans?"...."

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=19559

[doctorj]

Very interesting in the light of what we know will happen soon. There is but a little step from this designated day of rest to requesting that all nations of the earth designate a day of rest.