Peter Erdő presidente Ccee

PRIMA PAGINA

Al tema dell’ambiente e della responsabilità “ecologica” dei cristiani è stato dedicato gran parte dell’incontro del Comitato Congiunto Kek-Ccee (Consiglio delle Chiese europee e Consiglio delle conferenze episcopali europee) che si è svolto a Esztergom, Ungheria, dal 19 al 22 febbraio. Riportiamo alcuni stralci dell’intervento introduttivo tenuto dal card. Peter Erdő, arcivescovo di Esztergom-Budapest e […]

EUROPARLAMENTO

La sessione parlamentare svoltasi il 18 e 19 febbraio a Bruxelles è stata certamente caratterizzata dall’intervento in emiciclo del presidente ceco Vaclav Klaus (SirEuropa, n. 20 del 20 febbraio) e dalle discussioni che ne sono seguite in merito alla identità stessa dell’Ue, ai compiti assegnati alle istituzioni comuni in rapporto a quelle degli Stati membri, […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The parliamentary session held in Brussels February 18-19 was marked by the address delivered by Czech President Vaclav Klaus (SIR Europe, n. 20 of February 20) and by the debates that ensued regarding the identity of the EU, the tasks assigned to common Member States’ institutions and the common market. MEPs also addressed a number […]

EU DIRECTIVE

Countering black wages, illegal immigration, trafficking of people and unfair competition. These are some of the many objectives of the EU Directive sanctioning enterprises that hire illegal immigrants. The European Parliament approved the document (18-19 February session). After the final approval of the Council, expected in the Spring, Member States will have two years’ time […]

IMMIGRATION

Third country nationals family reunification policies in France, Italy and Spain must play down on “material constraints” and “requirement-thresholds” and focus more on “the path to follow”. This is what emerged from a survey carried out in Italy titled “Migration as a family event” and released by the publisher “Vite e Pensiero” of the Università […]

France: Ash Wednesday as a sign of fragility and hope"For Christianity – states a Note of France’s Bishops’ Conference – Lent is a time devoted to preparations in view of Easter. It lasts forty days (not counting Sundays) and precedes Easter Sunday, that celebrates Christ’s Resurrection, the heart of Christian faith". The bishops call upon […]

Romania-Italy: together against evil"The Catholic Church of Romania rejects and condemns together with all of you the crimes and other kinds of misdemeanours perpetrated in Italy by some of our compatriots", writes the Archbishop of Bucharest and President of the Romanian Bishops’ Conference, the Most Rev. Ioan Robu, in a letter sent on 23 February […]

CEC-CCEE

The “responsibility for the gift of the creation that God gave to everyone and that today is being jeopardized by many new threats and challenges” was the main theme of the meeting of the CCEE-CEC joint committee held at Esztergom (in Hungary) from 19 to 22 February. In his opening address, the President of the […]

FRONT PAGE

To the question of the environment and the “ecological” responsibility of Christians was devoted the larger part of the recent meeting of the Joint Committee of the CEC-CCEE (Council of European Churches and Council of European Bishops’ Conferences), held at Esztergom, Hungary, from 19 to 22 February. We report below some passages from the address […]

Secondo un’indagine di Eurobarometro, effettuata nel 2006, otto cittadini su dieci dichiaravano di essere “abbastanza” o “molto” soddisfatti della propria vita, mentre la maggioranza degli intervistati era “ottimista” circa il futuro. Se l’istituto di sondaggi rivolgesse oggi le stesse domande a un giovane studente polacco, a una commessa spagnola o a un pensionato irlandese quali […]