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Germania: non è un Paese senza DioLa Germania “non è un Paese di senza Dio”: lo ha affermato mons. Robert Zollitsch, presidente della Conferenza episcopale tedesca e arcivescovo di Friburgo. In un articolo pubblicato il 16 giugno sul quotidiano di Offenburg “Offenburger Tageblatt”, mons. Zollitsch afferma che “il mercato del religioso si espande con una […]

PRIMA PAGINA

La storia dimostrerà come il progetto europeo si sia sviluppato con spettacolare rapidità, almeno nei primi decenni. Appena vent’anni fa, subito dopo il Single European Act (1987), l’integrazione politica, economica e monetaria ha assunto nuovo slancio. Il progetto europeo ha così assunto una nuova qualità, che sarebbe stata presto migliorata dai trattati di Maastricht (1992) […]

ENLARGEMENT (6)

Bulgaria, the latest Country to enter the EU along with Romania, has been progressing at a steady pace to meet Community economic and social standards. Ten more Countries – Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Hungary entered the EU in 2004 (for the articles already published on EU Enlargement see […]

IMMIGRATION

“Immigration contributes to the economic results of Europe. Yet its potential will only be realized if we succeed in integrating immigrants and if we acknowledge people’s fears about clandestine immigration”, declared José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, summing up the complexity of the issue of immigration, to which the EU is trying to […]

ITALY-ROMANIA

Not only immigration: in fact, it would be better to talk of “exchange” between Italy and Romania. The reasons bear the names of globalization, economic convenience, poverty, border dismantling, “cultural kinship”. Thus, 25 thousand Italian companies relocated in Romania in response to the increase of Romanian immigrants in Italy (currently counting 550 thousand residents, but […]

SPAIN

The situation is similar to that of other European Countries, broadly illustrated by SIR Europe in the past months: many young people are getting ready for the World Youth Day with the Pope to be held in Australia next July 15-20. However, high travel costs will prevent many others from leaving their Countries. A number […]

COMECE - CEC

Faced with migration flow increase, Europeans must learn to coexist with peoples from different cultural and religious backgrounds. To the light of this awareness and in order to step up “social cohesion and civil peace in Europe”, the European Union proclaimed 2008 the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue”. An important aspect of the growing diversity […]

COMECE

After 15 years’ commitment as Secretary General of Comece (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) Msgr. Noël Treanor is resigning his post. In fact, on June 29 he will be ordained bishop of the diocese of Down and Connor, in Ireland. On the eve of his departure from Brussels, SIR Europe asked […]

POLAND

KEP: countering the enemies of the faith”The new Europe is ill, but it’s our Europe, and we must all have its good health at heart”, said Archbishop Jozef Michalik, President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference (KEP) on 18 June, during his homily in the eucharistic celebration at the end of the KEP’s 344th plenary session. […]

Germany: not a Country without God Germany “is not a Country of people who don’t believe in God”, said Msgr. Robert Zollitsch, President of Germany’s Bishops Conference and archbishop of Friburg. In an article published June 16 on Offenburg’s daily “Offenburger Tageblatt”, Msgr. Zollitsch claimed: “the religious market is spreading at a pace never seen […]