Making it easy to move around with EU, will be difficult for traditionalists to keep population under strict religion or ideology. It is just a matter of time until the new generations take over, Even the religious ones will not be the aggressive believer, the church will have less and less capacity to harness power and money from faith.

In my own observations...non scientific I stress! I can see that in European countries in general, Christianity....and in particular Catholicism is on the wane. It has been declining for some decades, but I believe the clerical child abuse scandals have increased that decline substantially. Here in Ireland, is a case in point....it was the most catholic country in Europe until about fifteen years ago. The decline here has been rapid and dramatic, same sex marriage, divorce and abortion legislation and a gay married, son of Hindu Indian immigrant , Prime Minister. Leo Varadker had a catholic mother and was raised as a catholic, but has since declared that he no longer practices that religion. The more Northerly European nations and the Scandinavians are all nominally Protestant countries, but attendance figures at churches indicates that their populations are all largely apathetic. It seems that of the western developed countries it’s only the USA that seems to be lurching to the right...with evangelical Christianity....going against the flow as it were!