Gianni Borsa - Bruxelles

Editoriale

Mai come in questa occasione, sul tavolo del G20 sono approdati i problemi più urgenti e spinosi che turbano i sonni dei leader politici – e dei cittadini – dei cinque continenti. Il vertice dei “grandi”, convocato a Seul, è infatti chiamato a dipanare la matassa della crisi economica, cercando un “quadro” per la ripresa […]

SURVEY OF IDEAS

Europe’s difficulties are evident, but the solutions for recovery are not as much. It is necessary to “curb the public burden and reconsider an identity that is appropriate to the global context, countering the nihilistic trends of 21st century capitalism”. In brief, this is the opinion of Mauro Magatti, dean of the Faculty of Sociology […]

NEW DRUGS

To tackle “new drugs” keeping up preventive and healthcare measures across the EU and curbing international drug-trafficking. Drug abuse continues being a plague for Europe. Over the past days, the EU Commission and the European Drug Monitoring centre in Lisbon issued a report on the phenomenon with possible solutions involving Member States (responsible for ad […]

EU ENLARGEMENT

The doors of the European Union are open to those States that intend to continue along the path of integration and cooperation. But full compliance with the adhesion criteria stipulated in Copenhagen in 1993 (democracy and Rule of the Law, market economy, “acquis communautaire”) is mandatory. The annual report on the enlargement process released by […]

ECUMENISM

Germany: the new president of the Evangelical ChurchNikolaus Schneider is the new President of the Council of the German Evangelical Church (EKD). He was elected in Hannover during the 11th synod of the German Evangelical Church (EKD). Msgr. Robert Zollitsch, President of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), released a statement conveying his congratulations for the […]

CROATIA

Fight against corruption: that’s the imperative underlined by Mgr. Vlado Kosic, Chairman of the "Justitia et Pax" Commission of the Croatian Bishops’ Conference, in a statement issued on 8 November. It’s a priority that also emerged during the plenary session of the Croatian bishops held at Lovran on 21 October. We report some salient passages […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

France: cardinal Vingt-Trois closes the plenary The family, the law on bioethics, work-free Sunday, and ecology are the themes addressed by French bishops during the plenary meeting held November 4 to 9 in Lourdes. These themes – said Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, president of the French Bishops’ Conference – regard “the future” of French society. “This […]

BELARUS

The mission of the rejuvenated Church, after 70 years of persecution, is to share her experience of the years under the Soviet regime, so that West European States may learn what it means to renounce God. It’s the portrayal of the Belarus Church made by a national protagonist, Msgr. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, archbishop of Minsk, interviewed […]

EDITORIAL

Never before as on this occasion have the most urgent and thorny problems that disturb the sleep of the political leaders – and the citizens – of the five continents landed on the table of the G20. The summit of the world’s most powerful nations, being held in Seoul, is in fact called to sort […]

iraq

"Ci stanno braccando ovunque": con queste parole il patriarca di Babilonia dei Caldei, il card. Mar Emmanuel III Delly, ha descritto la nuova, ennesima, ondata di violenza che sta scuotendo la comunità cristiana irachena, iniziata ormai il 31 ottobre, giorno della carneficina, ad opera di Al Qaeda, nella chiesa siro-cattolica di Baghdad e culminata negli […]