ABSTRACT
Is the Europe that is being built in the framework of the European Union and the Council of Europe secular? Asking this question is all the more legitimate as many European states that have a special relationship with a religion appear to be less than secular. This study shows that if the institutions through which Europe is built are indeed secular, they implement separation policies that do not exclude the recognition of religions and their contributions to social life. By practising an inclusive secularism, the actors of the European construction admit that both religious and secular humanism have nourished European construction. It is indeed this dialectic between faith and doubt that characterizes European civilization.
