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european parliament

With its marathon vote last week, during the plenary in Strasbourg, the European Parliament gave the go ahead to the EU general budget for 2008. The document fixes the overall level of expenditures at 120.3 billion euros (0.96% of European gross domestic product). It confirms more funds for development and growth (even if MEPs would […]

Scouting centenary

The close of 2007 marks the end of the centenary year of the scouting movement. In many countries in which this educational experience – born from an intuition of the English general Robert Baden Powell – is present, the celebrations reached their high point on 1st August with the solemn renewal of the scouting vow. […]

slovenia

“The Schengen area is the first secular, but deeply significant, representation of the new European unity. We are returning, in a certain sense, to the unified space of medieval Christianity, when pilgrims who went from Germany to Santiago de Compostela or from Slovenia to Rome had no need of passports or visas”. Born in Slovenia […]

ireland

Six Catholic and six Protestant schools sharing the same teachers, social structures and laboratories on the site where the most powerful bomb of Northern Ireland’s conflict exploded. In Omagh, on August 16 1998 the Ira, the terrorist movement for united Ireland, exploded the bomb which killed 29 people and left hundreds wounded. In that same […]

On December 13 an agreement was reached on compensation to Churches and religious societies on the part of the Czech Republic. The two commissions sat at the negotiations table, that of the State and that representing the 17 Churches recognized in the Country, who reached an agreement on compensation but which need the approval of […]

The Catholic Church is “at equitable distance from all democratic parties”. These words were pronounced by Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the Bishops Conference, in an interview to the Berlin daily “Tagesspiegel”. Lehmann repeatedly criticized the Cdu’s recent decision to review terms regulating the use of embryo stem cells, a “change of route” which according […]

Msgr. José Sánchez, bishop of Sigüenza-Guadalajara and President of the Migration Commission of Spain’s Bishops Conference (Cee) a few days ago presented “The Church in Spain and the immigrants”, a theological-pastoral reflection with practical guidelines for the pastoral care of migrants in the Country. International news agency Fides reported that the text was approved on […]

FRONT PAGE

The imminent entry of the Republic of Slovenia and of other Countries (Malta, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) in the Schengen area is an extremely important step for all of Europe. I dare say it’s an unprecedented event. We are witnessing a memorable page of our contemporary and European history. This may […]

UE

“Esprimo soddisfazione per i risultati della presidenza portoghese dell’Unione e per gli esiti del vertice”: José Socrates, premier del Portogallo e presidente di turno dei 27 nel secondo semestre dell’anno, chiude il suo mandato illustrandone gli obiettivi raggiunti e lasciando il posto alla Slovenia, primo paese ex comunista e neo membro dell’Ue ad assumere le […]

PARLAMENTO UE

Con la maratona di voto della scorsa settimana, durante la plenaria di Strasburgo, il Parlamento ha dato il via libera al bilancio generale Ue per il 2008. Il documento fissa il livello dei pagamenti a 120,3 miliardi di euro (0,96% del Prodotto interno lordo europeo). Tra le poste del budget si confermano più fondi per […]