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PARLAMENTO UE

Trattato di Lisbona ed Europa 2020: sono i due temi che hanno principalmente occupato gli eurodeputati riuniti dall’8 all’11 marzo a Strasburgo. L’applicazione delle riforme contenute nel nuovo trattato, specialmente per quanto riguarda talune innovazioni nel settore della politica estera dei 27, e la strategia economica per il prossimo decennio, sono stati al centro dei […]

European Patent Office: “European Inventor Award 2010 The imagination and the genius to the service of technological and industrial development: the European Patent Office (EPO) identified the nominees for the European Inventor Award 2010 out of a large number of candidates from EU countries and from the U.S., Switzerland, and Canada. The most “unusual” inventions […]

EU PARLIAMENT

Lisbon Treaty and Europe 2020 are the two main themes addressed by MEPs gathered in Strasbourg March 8-11. The enforcement of the new treaty reforms, notably those regarding innovations in the area of EU-27 foreign policy, and the economic strategy for the next decade occupied centre-stage during the plenary meeting that also addressed a number […]

ENGLAND

The “Catholic parliamentary internship” provides one-year experience of political and social action to Catholic recent-graduates. Three interns will be placed in Westminster’s parliament, two in the Bishops’ Conference Catholic Education Service and Archbishop House, the home office of the Catholic primate. Two further interns will work in close contact with Catholic MEPs in Brussels. The […]

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

The opening of the Holy Door in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela on December 31st 2009 inaugurated the “Jacobean Holy Year 2010”. Pilgrims will arrive from across Europe to visit what is believed to be the tomb of the Apostle Saint James Major, which Pope Benedict XVI will also visit in November as “pilgrim […]

polAND

The Polish episcopacy, gathered in Warsaw March 8-9 for the 351st plenary meeting of the Bishops’ Conference (KEP), approved with unanimous vote the new proposals for rapprochement with the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow. “The establishment of a mixed group to address the aspects of dialogue in the framework of the cultural changes of contemporary Europe […]

CARITAS EUROPE - COMECE

The Pope’s visit to the Caritas hostel in Rome on February 14, over 60 related events held in the respective dioceses, initiatives in many Countries to launch the “Zero poverty” campaign (www.zeropoverty.org) at national level, while signatures are being collected and other events are due to be finalized soon. February was an important month for […]

ccee-CEC

“It is the institution of the family which suffers the most from some unjust norms that regulate the phenomenon of migration”, says the final communiqué that the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences and the Conference of European Churches issued on 11 March, at the end of the annual meeting of the CCEE-CEC Joint Committee which […]

Ireland: Father Lombardi’s statement welcomedThe Irish bishops have “welcomed” the statement of the Director of the Vatican Press Room, Father Federico Lombardi, dedicated in recent days to the “very grave question” of the sexual abuse of minors which is involving the Church and its institutions in some European countries, including Ireland. In a statement issued […]

FRONT PAGE

On 9 May 1950 “the French government, with its solemn declaration, chose Europe”, which “resolutely took the Community road, pledge of prosperity, security and peace”. These are the words of Robert Schuman, a Catholic, a man of great culture and human sensibility, French Foreign Minister and author of the famous “Declaration” thanks to which, in […]