A little sotry: last year a hungarian MEP spoke abouth the cath. church trying to intervene in a law under preparation, and she was (quite disgustingly I should add) severely attacked by a romanian MEP of hungarian nationality who is a bishop of the…
In Hungary, things are a bit mixed up, partly due to a very backward-looking government (part-democracy) back in the 1930s, followed by 40 years of communism (with churches as collaborators from the 2nd half of the 1950s!).
There is no register on…
In Austria you have to pay taxes, one percentile of income on my knowledge, if you´re a roman-catholic, which is collected by the gouvernment, and you risk a warrant of distress, if you don´t pay. Church administration can do, whatever…