On 13 February, both Bishop Robert and the Chaplain-President attended a meeting at Comece which was co-organised by Comece (the commission of the RC bishops' conferences in the EU states), CEC (the conference of European Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and Old Catholic Churches) and the IAO (the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy). A wide array of MEPs, observers from the European Commission, members of national parliaments and other interested parties discussed how to encourage the acknowledgement of Christian values in the debates leading up to the European elections, and how to combat Christian values being weaponised by political parties for ethno-nationalist motives. The discussion was energetic and constructive, and the group agreed to meet again in the near future.