Frank Turner SJ

Within Europe, the European Union offers eminent scope for such an international expression of our mission.  It is an achievement of solidarity (nations have, up to a point, transcended many narrower expressions of their self-interest in the name of peace and solidarity - viz the Structural Funds, etc.) But the power of a relatively unified Europe, which allows it to become a bigger global force than any of its nations taken alone, also amounts to a temptation against solidarity: if there develops an unacceptable chasm between central and marginalised states, if the EU makes itself even more of a 'Fortress Europe' over against the rest of the world, etc.  At this critical juncture between promise and temptation, the Church, with its universal mission, is well placed to bear public witness to the Gospel, and to engage with the Union's own institutions. 

The Society of Jesus in Europe, too, has increasingly recognised that its mission eludes that of any single province.  The shared European works could begin to offer a template for a more effective collaboration.  Conversely, if (as is true) the European works are at present rather weak, that weakness might be attributed only partly to the deficiencies of their own teams, but also to the fact that the Society in Europe is still discovering how to work effectively in unity.

Those seem to me adequate reasons to be going on with.