Redazione

A study of measures of co-regulation (i.e. when state regulation is accompanied by private sector regulation) in the field of the mass media was recently presented in Brussels. According to the Commission, the “traditional regulations have difficulty in keeping pace with the rapidity of technological, economic and social change and of the decentralization of information”. […]

This year’s Safer Internet Day, promoted by the European Network for Safer Internet (INSAFE) in collaboration with the European Commission, was held on 6 February. Events and campaigns were held in each member state to coincide with Safer Internet Day with the objective of “arousing the interest of parents and teachers in the technologies that […]

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

“The enlargement of the European Union” to 27 States, “together with the reunification of Germany, remain for me the miracle of this generation”, declared HANS -GERT POETTERING , who in January was elected President of the European Parliament until 2009. He addressed his programmatic speech to the deputies during the plenary session held in Strasbourg […]

TURKEY

“To counter the strong nationalist pressures, Turkey must continue her course towards a democratic process that admits pluralism and recognises minorities. Only in this way can she show Europe that she’s ready to enter the Union”, says Monsignor LUIGI PADOVESE , expressing the Church’s thought on the Turkish political situation today. Apostolic Vicar for Anatolia […]

HUNGARY

One of the major problems of the Hungarian Catholic media is the continuing reflection in the clergy – a leftover from Communist times – of a conviction that pastoral initiatives should be kept secret. This suggests just how strong was the influence then exerted by the Soviet regime on the Church. Apart from internal problems, […]

Three quarters of the French think it’s wrong to ridicule religions, their founders, their believers and their representatives. That’s the finding of an opinion poll published on www.pelerin.info, the website of the Christian weekly of the same name, which conducted the survey, posing to the interviewees (a sample of 1000 people over the age of […]

The city of Rakovski – the only Bulgarian city with a Catholic majority – will shortly approve the European Charter for the participation of youth in the life of cities and regions. The European Charter was recently presented to the young by the city’s Councillor for Youth Policies Nikolaj Koprinkov. “This document – he told […]

The “Não Obrigada” platform, the lay movement most visible during the recent referendum campaign for a “no” to abortion, hopes the result of the referendum last Sunday will lead the State to support maternity in a more active way. One of the representatives of the movement, the physician João Paulo Malta, has proposed, to this […]

CCEE

Collegiality between the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe, ecumenism, relations between the Church and culture and society in Europe: these were the main focuses of activity of the CCEE (Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe) in recent months. The first meeting of the new CCEE Presidency to discuss its plan of work for the years […]

FRONT PAGE

With the accession of Bulgaria and Romania on 1st January this year, the population of the European Union enlarged to 27 member states has risen from 456 to 493 million citizens. The citizens of the countries involved have celebrated their entry into the Union, which is regarded as a source of hope, of promise and […]