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The General Directorate for the Economy and Finance of the European Commission has published its latest report on business climate in the European Union for the month of February 2006. So-called “economic sentiment” reflects the overall economic activity of the Union, combining evaluations, expectations and analyses obtained from surveys of consumer associations and businesses (industries, […]

The first “territorial dialogue” organized by the Committee of the Regions (COR) in the framework of EU strategy for employment and growth was held in Brussels last week. In the presence of the Vice-President of the European Commission Gunther Verheugen and the European Commissioner responsible for regional policy Danuta Hubner, the over 200 representatives of […]

Despite the fact that the last rapid estimate published by Eurostat forecast a slight fall in the annualised inflation rate of the Eurozone for February 2006 (2.3%) in comparison with the previous month (2.4%), the calculations of Brussels made on the basis of the new retail price index parameters for 2005 show an increase of […]

Unemployment rates in the Eurozone and in the EU-25, calculated for January 2006, remain unchanged at respectively 8.3% and 8.5%, according to Eurostat (Statistics Office of the European Community). The figures are positive if compared with the situation in January 2005, where unemployment reached 8.8% in the area of the Euro and 8.9% in the […]

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Having collected together his personal belongings in large boxes and finished packing his suitcases, JOSÉ MANUEL NUNES LIBERATO is ready to leave his office on the fourth floor of the European Parliament in Brussels. He is bound for the seat of the President of the Republic of Portugal. After almost twenty years’ service in the […]

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European and international Christian Churches and institutions 2 Press Conference of the Swiss episcopate, at the end of the 27th ordinary Assembly. Presentation of the book “ The image of the Other“, edited by the Commission of Jewish Catholic Dialogue (CJCD). 3 6th Meeting of the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South-East Europe (3-5), […]

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The energy crisis at the beginning of the year underlined the need for the European Union to develop a common energy policy: the question is tackled by CLARE COFFEY in the February number of “”Europe infos”, monthly review of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) and the Catholic Office of […]

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The life of Madeleine Delbrêl (1904-1964) symbolises the possible encounter and dialogue between atheism and Christianity in the service of the poor. French poet, social worker and mystic, with a process of beatification currently in course at the diocesan level, Madeleine Delbrêl, her life and her witness, were recently celebrated at a seminar devoted to […]

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To respond to the current challenges of migration and more in general of globalization, “we are called to rediscover the catholicity of the Church and the universal dimension of the Gospel”. But we also need to widen our horizons and look to the future: “in ten or twenty years’ time the main challenge for Christians […]

Donate a brick to reconstruct some Bosnian parishes in Posavina, on the frontier with Croatia, destroyed in the last war in the Balkans: that’s the Lenten action of solidarity proposed by Fathers Iko Skoko, Robert Ružic and Josip Oršolic, parish priests in the area of Mostar and Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The project has been called […]