Redazione

Per la prima volta nella storia i Presidenti delle Conferenze episcopali cattoliche d’Europa (Ccee) s’incontreranno in Russia dal 4 al 8 ottobre a San Pietroburgo su invito di mons. Joseph Werth, presidente della Conferenza episcopale dei vescovi cattolici della Federazione russa. In questa occasione i presidenti delle 34 Conferenze episcopali d’Europa membri del Ccee procederanno […]

PRIMA PAGINA

“In che cosa consiste l’identità europea?” La domanda, posta nel corso dell’Università estiva tenuta recentemente in Austria dalla Comece (Commissione degli episcopati della Comunità europea), potremmo rivolgerla ai francesi a 15 mesi dal loro “no” alla Costituzione europea.Che ne sanno dei motivi alla base dell’atto di fondazione del 25 marzo 1957 e dell’ideale comune dei […]

The first conference on Islam, with the participation of Islamic and non-Islamic exponents, ended recently in Berlin: at the same time the lady director of the Opera House in Berlin has decided to cancel a planned performance of Mozart’s Idomeneo as a precautionary measure, to avoid possible fundamentalist reactions (the prophet Mahomet would also have […]

Following the decision taken by the Commission on 30 August to set up a temporary task force on the problems of immigration, the Commissioners that compose it met for the first time to review the situation and plan the actions that the European Union is called to take in the near future to tackle the […]

The application of EU legislation in the environmental field is improving. From the report on the implementation of the environmental legislation of the European Union by member states it emerges that at the end of 2005 Brussels had opened 489 provisions for infringements against 570 in 2004: a reduction of 14%. The improvement of the […]

1637 million petroleum equivalent tons (PET), or 3.6 PET per inhabitant: that is the quantity of energy that was needed to satisfy the internal demand of the 25-member European Union in 2005, according to a report published last week by the Statistics Office of the EU (Eurostat). Though the level of consumption remained unchanged over […]

The European Commission has published the conclusions of the consultation held last April with the objective of promoting a public debate on the future of the policies linked to the single market. A total of 1514 replies were received, from national governments, businesses and ordinary citizens. The Commission’s Report emphasises the five sectors on which […]

COMMUNICATION

CREATING A NETWORK. “Defining what is meant by being Catholic in television, and establishing a Catholic television network that will serve as a vehicle for the evangelising movement are the objectives of the World Congress of Catholic Television”, due to take place in Madrid, from 10 to 13 October. The event, for which organizers expect […]

ECUMENISM

Following the meeting of the mixed International Commission for dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox Church, which ended in Belgrade on 25 September, we asked some exponents of the Orthodox Church present at the 14th Ecumenical Conference held at the monastery of Bose (Italy) in recent weeks, for their impressions on the resumption of interconfessional […]

COMECE

“In the absence of the entry into force of the Constitutional Treaty, it is vital to make effective use of the Programme of The Hague and its preliminary evaluation to ensure the citizens of the European Union of effective protection and security”, says JOANNA LOPATOWSKA-RYNKOWSKA, expert in human rights, in the last number of “Europe […]