Redazione

Coverage of the footfall World Cup currently in progress in Germany could hardly have been lacking in the press in recent days. Richard Meng of the Frankfurter Rundschau (12/6) comments as follows: “ World Cups like this are really entertaining. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are taking to the streets to celebrate the matches together: […]

Last week the European Commission adopted a strategic document that defines the main features of a policy – in partnership with member states, with operators of the sector, with users and with the European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA) – to improve the security of information and communication technologies in Europe. According to the Commissioner […]

European unemployment remained unvaried in April. According to Eurostat data, the levels are stable both in the Eurozone (8%) and in the EU-25 (8.3%). The reduction over the same period of the previous year is respectively 0.7% and 0.6%. The classification is led by Holland (3.8%), followed by Denmark and Ireland, both with an unemployment […]

The Austrian Minister and current chairman of the Agriculture Council, Josef Proell, has asked European member states and the Commission for a “clear mandate” to define a new common strategy for research in the sector. The definition of this strategy will be assigned to the Standing Committee for Agricultural Research . “The lack of cooperation […]

“I’m convinced that the time has come to think of new methods to more effectively combat tax fraud, whose scale has by now assumed seriously worrying proportions: from 2 to 2.5% of GDP for a total comprised between 200 and 250 billion euros”, declared the European Commissioner for fiscal policies, Laszlo Kovacs, during the presentation […]

EUROPEAN UNION

The summit of the heads of state and of government of the EU, convened in Brussels on 15-16 June, is called to express its view on the future of the EU Constitution, hitherto ratified by 15 countries and rejected by referendum both by France and Holland. After a “pause for reflection” lasting a year, the […]

LITURGY

The recent publication of the study ‘Turned to the Lord. The orientation of liturgical prayer’, written by Uwe Michael Lang, member of the congregation of the Oratory in London, has re-brought the question to the attention of liturgists and theologians. It was also discussed at the international conference on “The liturgical space and its orientation”, […]

COMECE

Instilling a genuine sentiment of common belonging in the citizens of the European Union: that’s the aim of the programme “Europe for citizens”: a programme that, according to JOANNA LOPATOWSKA-RYNKOWSKA in the May number of “Europe infos”, monthly bulletin of the Community of episcopates of the European Community (Comece) and the Catholic Office for Information […]

Common prayer with a spiritual theme that would inspire those who participate in it has always in the past characterised the start of the school day for every British pupil. Today, however, the tradition has become so démodé that the religious leaders of the most important Christian denominations in the UK have asked the Minister […]

A fairer and more transparent system for evaluating the phenomenon of asylum seekers and removing the recent legislative restrictions on the matter: that, in sum, is what is asked by a new document of the Churches of Scotland, presented in Edinburgh on 14 June. The aim of the joint statement, “Principles of asylum”, explains the […]