Angelo Bagnasco presidente Conferenza Episcopale Italiana

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Pubblichiamo il testo dell’intervento (venerdì 23 marzo) di mons. Angelo Bagnasco, arcivescovo di Genova e presidente della Cei, al Congresso Comece per i 50 anni dei Trattati di Roma. Sono lieto di essere qui tra voi in occasione di una ricorrenza così importante come l’anniversario dei 50 anni della firma dei Trattati di Roma, con […]

The balance of fifty years of European unification is undoubtedly positive. Peace has been preserved, and the consolidation of many common policies has improved the quality of life of European citizens: economy, agriculture, regional development, fundamental liberties. The European social model and the single currency, the euro, protect the European states from the cyclical crises […]

europE: 50 years - fact file

“Peace and stability, freedom and democracy, prosperity, employment and growth”: these are the shared values and real results that European citizens are celebrating on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. It’s a half-century of integration that represents the most important process of pacification and cooperation in the history of humanity. […]

To directly experience a Europe that is close to citizens, and that aims at the hoped-for “results”, it is enough to visit one of the five sites of the Common Research Centre of the European Union. Today the CRC is a General Directorate of the Commission and represents its technological and scientific point of reference, […]

“The European Union has a need for more politics”: this conviction provided a connecting thread for the conference on “What does Europe lack?”, promoted jointly by the European Parliament and the parliaments of member states to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the founding Treaties of the EEC. The conference programme included a […]

On the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome , MARIA ROMANA DE GASPERI draws “an undoubtedly positive balance sheet” but one that “must be continued”. In an interview with SIR, the daughter of Alcide De Gasperi, protagonist of Italy’s political reconstruction after the Second World War and considered, together with Robert […]

An international conference on Europe to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and the 25th of the foundation of the Robert Schuman Institute for Europe: the initiative, promoted by the Schuman Institute itself, began in Rome on 21 March and will end on 23 March, in tandem with the institutional celebrations marking […]

Fifty years of integration, a mixture of concrete results and undeniable failures, have revolved round a “winning card”: the community method. “It was the great intuition of Jean Monnet; it was one of the strong points of the EEC, and may still be so for the EU today”, says the distinguished economist MARIO MONTI , […]

Defining and describing such values as peace, freedom, tolerance, solidarity, justice and defence of the person, which even if they are not exclusively Christian values, are profoundly rooted in the Christian tradition: that’s the objective of “A Europe of values – the ethical dimension of the European Union”, the Report of the “Committee of Wise […]

EUROPE: 50 YEARS - Services

With the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty by France and Holland, “a new chapter has been opened in the history of European unification”, but “the continuation” of that process without the consensus of the citizens of the individual member states “seems more than ever uncertain”. To be able to make “a responsible decision” on the […]