Frank Turner - Europe Infos (COMECE)

EDITORIAL

Political issues surrounding the 2011 EU budget, as aptly reported by the article, were partly solved after this text had been drawn up when the European Parliament and the EU Council reached agreement on such budget. The impasse on the 2011 budget, following the failure of the negotiations of 15 November 2010, only six weeks […]

UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE

What are the future perspectives of European universities? Who are the students of today? How did the science-faith relationship change? Some sixty delegates for University Pastoral Care from Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE), along with representatives of associations and ecclesial movements will be trying to provide answers in the course of the European Congress titled “Formation, […]

SOUTH-EAST BALKANS

Albania is on the brink of an internal crisis that does not, on the face of it, seem to have any easy answers; in Kosovo the question of war crimes has once again come to the fore and the name of the current premier is being cited; Croatia and Serbia would like to proceed towards […]

Early school leave: the Commission’s initiative “More than six million young people – one in 7 in the EU – currently have only lower secondary education or less. This means they have insufficient qualifications” for the job market, “which is one of the main obstacles to the ‘Europe 2020′ goal of smart, sustainable and inclusive […]

COUNCIL OF EUROPE

Today, January 28, the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) closes in Strasbourg. The Assembly was opened on January 24, as members of the Assembly stood in silence for the victims of the suicide bombing which, just a few hours before, blast Moscow’s Domodevodo’s airport killing 35 people and […]

COMECE

As usual, the team of COMECE experts addressed a variety of topics in January’s issue of “Europe Infos”. Features include the editorial by Frank Turner on EU’s funding system, to topical questions regarding the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the cohesion policy, Europe’s participation in the Cancun Climate Conference and the parliament debate on the delicate […]

IRAQ - EU

“They all display major interest, along with the yearning to listen from our living voice what is happening to Christians in Iraq so as to identify the political initiatives that will best promote our Country’s recovery and the respect of minorities, notably Christians”. With these words the Chaldean patriarchal vicar of Baghdad, Msgr. Shlemon Warduni, […]

UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE

Relation between faith and reason, service to the common good, the challenge of integral education: these were the issues tackled, in the light of the educational vision of Cardinal John Henry Newman, by the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, is his keynote address opening the European Congress on University Pastoral Care with the title “Formation, […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Turkey: Mgr. Padovese, waiting for the trial”There is no news of a trial against the person who murdered mgr. Padovese. Investigations may be going on but we not know anything at all. Murat Altun was sent to Istanbul for an additional medical report. We are waiting to hear something”. Over six months after the brutish […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Russia: in prayer for the victims of the attack On January 25 Russia’s Catholic Community held a prayer service in Saint Petersburg to celebrate the memory of the victims of the suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on January 23, pleading God “to bring peace in those places where it is threatened”. The sorrow and […]