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“Dynamic factor model”: that’s the name of the model developed at the end of 2004 by the General Directorate for Economic and Financial affairs of the European Commission to forecast the trend of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Euro zone. The latest version of the model forecasts a GDP growth in the Euro […]

A wave of legal proceedings has been triggered against EU member states for failure to implement EU legislation on the internal market. Referral by the Commission to the Court of Justice “due to lack of communication of national measures for the implementation” of the legislation is question involves a total of 19 member states and […]

In spite of the alarms at the start of the year, the latest data published by Eurostat on inflation register a slight decline of the annual rate in the Euro zone for March 2006 (2.2%) compared with the previous month (2.3%), thus confirming the positive trend begun in February and the rapid estimate of consumer […]

“Better planning and constant improvement in the management of the EU budget, at all levels, produce concrete results. The member states now pay to the EU budget only the contributions that are really necessary”, said Dalia Grybauskaité, European Commissioner for financial and budgetary planning. She was commenting on the finding, as surprising as it is […]

european parliament

The tragedy of Chernobyl as a lesson of history and a warning for the future: the parliamentary session of Brussels on 26-27 April opened with a debate on the day marking the 20th anniversary of the explosion of the reactor at the nuclear power station situated 120 km from Kiev, “releasing into the sky a […]

chernobyl

25 April 1986: explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. It is the worst nuclear incident that has ever occurred: and a disaster whose consequences have not yet been exhausted. On the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, the German Churches have, in various statements, adopted a clear position on nuclear energy, emphasising the […]

universities

The prospects of university pastoral care after WYD in Cologne, the preparation of a European meeting of university teachers, and the role of students in pastoral work: just some of the questions at the centre of the meeting of the Co-ordinating Group of the European Committee of university chaplains, being held at St. Gallen (Switzerland) […]

france

The Council of the Christian Churches in France – consisting of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Federation of France and the Assembly of Orthodox bishops – has expressed its concerns about the amendments contained in the new immigration bill, which was approved by the Council of Ministers on 29 March and will be debated in […]

A hundred canonical representatives of Spanish cathedrals met in Toledo in recent days to discuss how to evangelise the media. “We don’t see ourselves reflected in the image of the Church that appears in the media”, said Francisco Serrano Oceja, editor of the Church magazine Alfa y Omega , pointing out that “the relationship between […]

This year Cardinal Peter Erdo, Archbishop of Budapest and Primate of Hungary, presided over the eucharistic celebration in the cathedral of Venice on 25 April, on the occasion of the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, patron of Venice and of the Venetian people. The concelebrants – in the presence of representatives of the ecclesial […]