Redazione

“Take to the road… you’re a missionary” is the slogan of Missionary Childhood Day which is to be celebrated on Sunday, 28 January. The aim of the Day is to encourage children and adolescents to join the missionary groups that exist in parishes, in schools or Christian associations, in order to involve children and adults […]

The Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of the Catholic Church in England, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, has asked the government, with a letter sent to the premier, Tony Blair and his government, to give Catholic adoption agencies exemption from the anti-discrimination law that is due to enter into force in April and that would oblige […]

“This gesture of aid expresses Christian solidarity. My heart is full of joy also thanks to the patron chosen for the boys’ college: St. Emeric, the protector of Hungarian youth: may he also be an example of life for our youth”, said the Archbishop of Colombo Oswald Gomis, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Sri […]

FRONT PAGE

Thanks to the World Cup, the Germans are once again proud of their national identity, even if many warn of the danger of a nationalistic revival. But which of us feels European? Who does not associate the EU in the first place with an elephantine bureaucracy or the squandering of billions in subsidies? Great hopes […]

Bush’s State of the Union address to the Congress is variously analysed by the German press. “ Anyone who begins the last two years of his own term of office with the appeal to people to have a little more patience, and give him a further chance, one last time, is not well placed“, observes […]

REVIEW OF IDEAS

Distinguish, involve, define: in these three verbs may be epitomized the “recipe” of PAUL THIBAUD , philosopher and writer, to extricate Europe from the situation of impasse in which it currently languishes and give it new impetus. Writing in the last number of the French review of international policy, following the entry of Bulgaria and […]

Coinciding with the informal Council meeting of EU Ministers of Justice (see above), Eurobarometer has published the results of a survey conducted (between 31 March and 5 April 2006) on a sample of 25,000 citizens over the age of 15 from 25 member states. The survey asked the interviewees to express an opinion on various […]

During the recent informal meeting of the Justice and Internal Affairs Council in Dresden, the Vice-President of the Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Franco Frattini confirmed the commitment of Brussels to collaborate with the German Presidency of the Union to achieve one of the fundamental points of the programme relating to a greater involvement of […]

The last consultative Forum on the White Paper of the European Commission on communication policy was held in Berlin on 18-19 January. The meeting – organized jointly by the Executive and the German Presidency of the EU and entitled “Communicating Europe Together” – was attended by over 300 representatives of Community Institutions, national and local […]

A working document of the services of the European Commission on pluralism of the media; an independent study on the pluralism of the media in EU member states (in 2007); and a Communication of the Commission on the indices of the pluralism of the media in member states (in 2008): these are the “three stages” […]