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EUROPEAN COUNCIL

Coordinating the responses, supporting the real economy and exploiting the advantages of the single market; taking measures to address the social and employment repercussions of the recession; regulating the markets; investing in energy networks and sustainable forms of production; and bringing shared positions to the forthcoming international summits, beginning with the G20 in London on […]

THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CRIME

“Your struggle is the struggle of the European Union. We must encourage all countries to pursue commitment for legality, to fight against the mafias and organized crime”: Hans-Gert Poettering, Presidemt of the EU Parliament, supports the campaign of Flare (Freedom Legality and Rights in Europe, the first international network of civil society for the struggle […]

UNITED KINGDOM

Adoption: lukewarm enthusiasm to the rulingA faint ray of hope has been shed over the two Catholic adoption agencies that lodged an appeal against British legislation envisaging adoptive parenthood to homosexual couples, which goes against Church teaching. The “Charity Tribunal”, the appeal body that addresses cases of charities whose rights are not provided for in […]

HUNGARY

The Commission of the Family of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference met in Budapest on 11 March for a meeting chaired by Bishop László Bíró to tackle a number of important social and ethical issues: the adoption of a clear position against the reformulation of a bill on civil partnerships drafted by the Hungarian government and […]

Portugal: sufferings of the Tzigane ethnic minorityDuring the public presentation of the Report on the auditions concerning the Portuguese tzigane (gipsy) community, as part of the European Year of International Dialogue, the Executive Director of the national Catholic pastoral mission for Tziganes (ONPC), Francisco Monteiro, appealed for “concrete measures to be adopted, aimed at solving […]

COMECE

“Voting is a right and a duty”. In a Declaration on European Elections anticipated to SIR Europe by COMECE Secretary General Father Piotr Mazurkiewicz (cf. SIR Europe n.16/2009), the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) urged Christians to exercise their vote in the European elections of June 4-7. The Statement was issued […]

FRONT PAGE

During the Spring Plenary meeting in Brussels (March 18-20 2009) the Bishops members of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community), adopted a Declaration in view of the European Elections of June 4-7 2009. The bishops call upon EU citizens, and to Christians in particular, to responsibly exercise their right to vote […]

Le elezioni per il rinnovo del Parlamento europeo (Pe) sono dietro l’angolo. Dal 4 al 7 giugno tutti e Ventisette gli Stati membri voteranno. Dietro l’angolo vi sono però anche diversi modi di intendere l’imminente tornata elettorale. C’è chi giustamente la vede e la prevede come un’occasione per dare all’Europa ed ai suoi quasi 500 […]

Il voto? Una scelta responsabile prima ancora che un dovere. Il Parlamento europeo lancia la campagna di comunicazione in vista dell’appuntamento con le urne del 4-7 giugno che coinvolgerà potenzialmente 375 milioni di elettori di 27 Stati, 36 milioni dei quali si recheranno per la prima volta ai seggi. Molteplici le iniziative per raggiungere il […]

ELEZIONI EUROPEE

Il voto? Una scelta responsabile prima ancora che un dovere. Il Parlamento europeo lancia la campagna di comunicazione in vista dell’appuntamento con le urne del 4-7 giugno che coinvolgerà potenzialmente 375 milioni di elettori di 27 Stati, 36 milioni dei quali si recheranno per la prima volta ai seggi. Molteplici le iniziative per raggiungere il […]