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Sì al dialogo e no all’antisemitismo. È stato questo il messaggio congiunto di ebrei e cattolici spagnoli nel 40 Anniversario della “Nostra Aetate”, riunitosi nella sede della Conferenza episcopale spagnola il 28 novembre per ricordare la dichiarazione conciliare sulle religioni non cristiane. Il vescovo di Almería Adolfo González Montes, presidente della Commissione episcopale per le […]

Centinaia di missionari di strada invaderanno il centro di Lisbona per evangelizzare attraverso l’arte e la bellezza: è una delle iniziative previste dal 5 al 13 novembre nella capitale portoghese nell’ambito del Congresso internazionale della nuova evangelizzazione (Icne), che coinvolge dal 2002 cinque città europee: Vienna (2003), Parigi (2004), Budapest, Bruxelles nei prossimi due anni […]

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Conviene tenere in mente il vecchio adagio, ‘la mano che fa dondolare la culla è la mano che governa il mondo’, quando si riflette sul processo della costruzione europea. Indipendentemente dalla radicale novità della partecipazione delle donne al mercato dell’occupazione negli ultimi 50 anni, le donne restano le principali responsabili della cura e dell’educazione della […]

The fraught task of forming the Grand Coalition in Germany, with pieces falling off it on the way, is the main focal point of comments in the German press. Writing in Die Welt (2/11), Roger Köppel points out: “ The German political apparatus betrays the signs of a mad house. The grand coalition is losing […]

The European Commission has published a document on “Better regulation and thematic strategies for the environment”, with which it intends to begin the reform of EU legislation on the environment. Simplification and efficiency are the two keywords that should be applied in the months ahead to the seven thematic strategies of the 6th EU Action […]

“Recognizing that to effectively tackle the trafficking of human beings an integrated approach based on respect for human rights and on the global nature of the phenomenon is needed”. That’s the key principle of the Communication on “combating the trafficking of human beings – an integrated approach and proposals for an action plan”, presented by […]

“European citizens can henceforth change their jobs and country of residence without losing their own pension rights accrued under the various national regimes”. That’s the slogan adopted by Brussels to sum up the content of the proposed Directive “Transferability of pension rights”, presented by the European Commission last week with the objective of putting an […]

european constitution" "

Just twelve months have gone by since the ceremony of the signing of the “Treaty adopting a Constitution for Europe”, held with great solemnity on the Capitol in Rome on 29 October 2004. Yet today it seems that a veil of silence has fallen over the fundamental Charter of the EU, which had aroused so […]

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“I am convinced that enlargement is an historic mission of Europe”. MARIO MONTI , an economist of international fame, president of the Bocconi University in Milan, served as a European Commissioner for two terms, first as Commissioner in charge of the single market, financial services and tax policy (1995-99), and then as Commissioner for competition […]

trafficking" "

Two main proposals emerged from the European Conference on combating the trafficking of human beings, held in recent days in Florence, on the initiative of Emmaus International and Emmaus Europe: first, an appeal to European leaders to ratify the international Conventions and protocols that guarantee the human rights of the victims of trafficking; and second, […]