Juan Emilio Tercero Oliva Spagna

PRIMA PAGINA

Una lettera di felicitazioni a José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, presidente del Governo in carica e segretario generale del Psoe, per la vittoria alle elezioni politiche del 9 marzo in Spagna: l’hanno inviata, il 10 marzo, a nome dei vescovi spagnoli, il presidente e il segretario generale della Conferenza episcopale spagnola, rispettivamente il card. Antonio Maria […]

ALLARGAMENTO (1)

Sono 12 i paesi di recente adesione all’Ue: dieci fanno parte del “grande allargamento” del 2004 (Cipro, Estonia, Lettonia, Lituania, Malta, Polonia, Repubblica Ceca, Slovacchia, Slovenia, Ungheria), mentre due, Romania e Bulgaria, hanno raggiunto la “casa comune” all’inizio del 2007. SirEuropa inizia un “viaggio” attraverso i nuovi Stati membri, a partire dalla Slovacchia. Per analizzare […]

PARLAMENTO EUROPEO

Mezzo secolo fa, alla poltrona della presidenza veniva eletto Robert Schuman, politico francese, cattolico, già allora ritenuto uno dei “padri dell’Europa unita”. L’Assemblea parlamentare della Comunità economica europea si insediava il 19 marzo 1958 a Strasburgo, così come due mesi prima aveva cominciato a lavorare la Commissione nella sede di Bruxelles. Si era agli albori […]

GAZA

La situazione odierna di Gaza è la peggiore da quando nel 1967 Israele invase la Cisgiordania. E’ quanto emerge da un rapporto stilato da otto organizzazioni non governative del Regno Unito, tra cui Save the Children, Christian Aid, Cafod, Amnesty International, Trocaire e Care International. Da tempo la Caritas Gerusalemme denuncia le drammatiche condizioni in […]

ENLARGEMENT (1)

Twelve countries have recently joined the EU. Of these, ten are part of the great enlargement of 2004 (Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Hungary) while the remaining two, Romania and Bulgaria, joined the common household in 2007. SirEurope begins a journey through the new member states, beginning with Slovakia. […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

It was half a century ago that Robert Schuman, a French politician and a catholic who was already considered at the time one of the fathers of a united Europe, was elected president of the European Parliament. The Parliamentary Assembly of the EEC inaugurated on March 19th, 1958 in Strasbourg; two months previously, the Commission […]

GAZA

Gaza’s current situation has worsened since Israel invaded the West Bank in 1967. This is the concluding remark of a report drawn up by eight NGOs of the UK including Save the Children, Christian Aid, Cafod, Amnesty International, Trocaire and Care International. For a long time Jerusalem’s Caritas has been denouncing the tragic conditions of […]

ECUMENISM

France: solidarity to Christian minorities”Carry each other’s burdens” was the title of the message which the Council of Christian Churches in France (CECEF) addressed believers just before the Passion celebrations. The document, bearing the signatures of the president and the two vice presidents of CECEF, the Greek Orthodox metropolitan and president of the Assembly of […]

COMECE

“Behind politics lies metapolitics, which transcends party lines and forms the foundation of the projects and actions that as a whole tend to the realization of the common good in Europe”. From this consideration, enunciated by the bishops of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) who concluded their 38th plenary assembly […]

Germany: illegal immigration. Criticism to the EU Germany’s Bishops Conference criticized the attitude of the European Union (EU) towards illegal immigration. “The EU Commission views the fight against immigration as the centre of the Community’s migration policy”, declared on March 6 in Berlin Msgr. Josef Voß, immigration expert of the Bishops Conference. Msgr. Voß’s declaration […]