Gianni Borsa

MIGRANTI IN ARRIVO

Gli hotspot "stanno cominciando a funzionare" e "dal primo ottobre sono previsti i primi trasferimenti di richiedenti asilo da Italia e Grecia": Natasha Bertaud, portavoce della Commissione Ue, è apparsa rassicurante alcuni giorni or sono spiegando, a Bruxelles, che la macchina europea della ricollocazione dei profughi si sta mettendo in moto. Un problema complesso, inutile […]

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Prompted by the separatist challenge, Catalans went massively to the polls for a vote, that of Sunday September 27, initially meant as political (the election of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the institutional system that includes parliament and government of the autonomous community, with headquarters in Barcelona) was turned into a kind of referendum on the […]

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Sollecitati dalla sfida separatista, i catalani si sono recati in massa alle urne per un voto, quello di domenica 27 settembre, che da politico (elezione delle Generalitat de Catalunya, sistema istituzionale comprendente parlamento e governo della regione autonoma, con sede a Barcellona) era stato trasformato in una sorta di referendum sulla permanenza o meno della […]

CHURCHES IN BRIEF

Ireland: families, expectations for the 2018 world meeting The Church of Ireland is celebrating the announcement made by Pope Francis in Philadelphia that Dublin will host the World Meeting on Families 2018. Archbishop Eamon Martin, primate of All Ireland, conveyed the joy of the Irish Catholic population. “Despite many challenges, the family remains at the […]

HEALTH REPORT

The latest report on Health in European countries, published a few days ago by the regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (EUWHO) highlights unfulfilled goals. The report, published every three years, monitors the progress of European health policies adopted by 53 Member Countries in 2012 towards the six targets of the European […]

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Twenty-five years ago, October 3rd 1990, Germany was re-united. The collapse of the communist regime – after 45 years of division – enabled the citizens of Germany’s so-called Democratic Republic to become full members of the Federal Republic of Germany, through free self-determination, and naturally they also became citizens of the European Union. Since then, […]

UE-PROFUGHI

Gli hotspot “stanno cominciando a funzionare” e “dal primo ottobre sono previsti i primi trasferimenti di richiedenti asilo da Italia e Grecia”: Natasha Bertaud, portavoce della Commissione Ue, è apparsa rassicurante alcuni giorni or sono spiegando, a Bruxelles, che la macchina europea della ricollocazione dei profughi si sta mettendo in moto. Un problema complesso, inutile […]

SCHOOL IN FRANCE

Fifteen points to say that the French Republic is “secular, democratic and social”, founded on the “separation between religions and the State”. “Everyone is free to believe and not to believe”, teachers are called to maintain utmost “neutrality” in their political or religious beliefs. The display of symbols representing religious belief is forbidden in public […]

EU-REFUGEES

Hotspot areas “are starting to become operative” and “as of October 1st the first asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece will be transferred”: Natasha Bertaud, EU Commission spokesman, appeared reassuring few days ago explaining in Brussels that the European machine for the relocation of refugees is getting into motion. A complex problem, needless to say, because […]

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Venticinque anni fa, il 3 ottobre 1990, la Germania è stata riunificata. Il fallimento del regime comunista aveva reso possibile che, dopo 45 anni di separazione, i cittadini della cosiddetta Repubblica democratica tedesca in libera autodeterminazione potessero entrare a far parte della Repubblica federale di Germania e quindi anche dell’Unione europea. Da allora, la Germania […]