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A round table promoted by the Committee for National and Religious Affairs was held n Kiev at the end of May on the theme: “The priorities of state policy in the sphere of freedom of conscience: ways of realization”. Representatives of the Catholic Church of Byzantine rite, the Orthodox Church and Sheik Ahmed Tamim, leader […]

The 120th anniversary of one of the symbolic Catholic settlements in northern Bulgaria, Burdarski Geran, was celebrated on the last Sunday in May. Its inhabitants are in fact the descendents of the first Bulgarian Catholics who came from Ciprovzi; led by the Catholic bishop Petar Parchevich, they staged the first revolt against the Turkish occupation […]

“Re-awakening”: that’s the motto chosen by Austrian Catholic Youth for the international youth pilgrimage to Mariazell planned between 12 and 15 August. Markus Muth, in charge of youth pastoral care, called the pilgrimage one of the “salient points” of the events organized to mark the 850th anniversary of Mariazell. Tens of thousands of young pilgrims […]

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For the third time since the present European Commission came into office, a meeting has been held between the President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso and some representatives of the Church and religious leaders. This meeting, chaired by Barroso, was held on 15 May and marked a new stage in the development of a […]

A study of the Institute of Demographic Development in Berlin on the situation in East Germany has shown that, among the younger generations, only unemployed young adult males, for the most part unskilled, remain in the countries of the former DDR. Girls, on the other hand, as soon as they have obtained their secondary school-leaving […]

The European Commission last week proposed a new joint legal framework for the formation of EU agricultural products both on the internal market and on the markets of third countries. The legislative simplification in question – harmonizing the two Regulations currently in force and merging them into a single text – is intended to “facilitate […]

The European Council has allocated an overall budget of 400 million euros to the EU Programme for Culture for the period 2007-2013. The Programme is the successor of the Culture 2000 Programme, which is now completing the projects funded during the previous seven-year period. The motto of the new Culture Programme is “crossing borders – […]

After 18 months of negotiation, the European Council and Parliament finally reached a political agreement on 24 May on the new EU Directive relating to audiovisual media services without frontiers, whose entry into force is expected by the end of the year. Member states will then have a period of 24 months to transpose the […]

An informal ministerial meeting on “Urban development and territorial cohesion” was held at Leipzig in Germany on 24-25 May. During the meeting two consultative documents were adopted: the “Territorial Agenda of the European Union” and the “Leipzig Charter on the Sustainable European City”. Both the German Presidency of the EU and European Commissioner for Regional […]

“Un confronto cordiale per mettere a punto e rafforzare la cooperazione tra Ccee e Comece”. Il card. Peter Erdö, arcivescovo di Esztergom-Budapest e presidente del Ccee (Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali d’Europa), commenta così l’incontro che si è tenuto nei giorni scorsi a Berlino tra la presidenza Ccee e la presidenza Comece (Commissione degli episcopati della […]