To cope with the problems of today's world, we need to enter into a dialogue regardless of political, religious and philosophic beliefs. A 'transversal dialogue' as Pope Francis called for in the private audience, he granted Alexis Tsipras, Walter Baier and Franz Kronreif in September 2014. This conversation resulted in the 'DIALOP initiative' - a transversal dialogue between Socialists and Christians. Meanwhile, a network of universities and NGOs explore ways of what they call a transversal social ethics. In this book authors from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Vatican present their view on topics like social equality. European Unity, democracy, commons and ecology.