Thomas Jansen - Sir Europa (Germania)

EDITORIALE

L’attuale crisi economica che minaccia il processo di unificazione europea, mette in ombra i grandi passi in avanti finora compiuti. Vale la pena, perciò, ripercorrere i vent’anni trascorsi dalla firma del Trattato di Maastricht che ha segnato la nascita dell’Unione monetaria. A parte la fase istitutiva degli anni Cinquanta, nella storia della Comunità europea o […]

EDITORIAL

The ongoing economic crisis that threatens the European unification process overshadows the progress made until today. It is therefore worthwhile retracing the events of the past twenty years since the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, which marked the establishment of the monetary Union.Apart from its implementing phase, in the 1950s, no other period in the […]

CHIESE IN BREVE

Francia: incontro card. Vingt-Trois e presidente HollandeLaicità, matrimoni gay, cure palliative ed eutanasia. Questi i temi trattati nel corso dell’incontro che il card. André Vingt-Trois, arcivescovo di Parigi e presidente della Conferenza episcopale francese, ha avuto martedì 17 luglio all’Eliseo con il nuovo presidente della Repubblica François Hollande. “Abbiamo avuto uno scambio molto libero sulla […]

CHURCHES AND OLYMPIC GAMES

England: two initiatives to remember our "roots" The bells will be rung in Christian churches across England, to mark the opening of the Olympic Games, July 27, while a Mass for the Catholic athletes will be celebrated on Saturday July 28, at 14.30, in Westminster’s Cathedral, the mother home of English Catholicism, in the heart […]

SURVEY OF IDEAS

"Although it isn’t effective in conflict management and resolution, artistic creation can still provide a platform for reflection, a shaded understanding of complex political situations. And who knows: one day we could be experiencing a miracle". This is the thesis of Androulia Michaël, maïtre de conférence in Contemporary Art at the Université de Picardie Jules […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

France: the "Way of Hope"The "spiritual" and the "practical" dimensions of Europe are at the heart of the "Way of Hope", a pilgrimage through the Bourbonnais region of central France, which between July 21 and August 2 will mobilize more than 200 people from around the continent, to walk and pray together for the future […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

France: meeting between card. Vingt-Trois and president HollandeLaicism, gay marriage, palliative care and euthanasia. These are the points addressed during a meeting between card. André Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris and president of the French Bishops Conference, and the new president of the Republic, François Hollande, at the Elysée Palace on Tuesday 17th July. "We had […]

Commission: research and innovation without borders"We cannot continue with a situation where research funding is not always allocated competitively, where positions are not always filled on merit, where researchers can rarely take their grants or have access to research programmes across borders, and where large parts of Europe are not even in the game". These […]

EUROPEAN UNION

A medical emergency, the loss of a wallet or a strong delay in flights: who can travellers turn to? The unexpected whilst travelling occurs more often than not, and when we’re miles away from home all solutions seem difficult. As the holiday season is starting the EU Commission published a guide (and a website) for […]

CCEE

Transparency in communication is a set of overlapping and intertwining transparencies tending towards the highest degree of reliability and credibility. There is the transparency of sources called to respond with honesty and accuracy to the common good, and not to partisan interests. There is the transparency of professional communicators, called to remove ideological and prejudicial […]