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This article provides significant insights into the relative politicization of the Simonist model of religious liberty in modern Europe. Furthermore, the present paper takes initiative in the wish to contribute to understanding the spirituality characterizing this period and this territory. In the preliminary stage, the purpose of the paper is to offer to those who study the problem of institutional relations between Church and State in Europe the possibility to come back to the nineteenth century, suggesting as working hypothesis a new interpretation: analyzing the religious liberty and the regime of cults starting from the political and legal context of the period and the philosophical teachings of Saint-Simon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past years, there have been debates in many European countries regarding the lowering of the minimum age required for a person to be able to vote. Austria was the first European country, in 2007, that lowered the active voting age to a minimum of 16 and the passive voting age to 18. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, through the 1826 resolution, has called on its 47 member states to analyze the possibility of lowering the voting age to 16. The wave of debates has not avoided Romania, a number of stakeholders showing an interest in this matter, leading up to a possible change in the Constitution. This paper will present both the current status of the youth voting rights and the main arguments both in favour and against lowering the voting age to 16. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]