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The European Commission has activated a telephone line and an e-mail address that furnish information on citizens’ rights on immigration and freedom of circulation. The operators also explain the administrative procedures that need to be followed, explain the link between employment and residence permits, receive complaints and evaluate solutions. The service is called: European Citizens […]

A pan-European campaign against racism inside and outside football stadiums will be held from 13 to 25 October. It’s the sixth week of Football against Racism in Europe (FARE). “Fans, ethnic minorities and football clubs will all be united to demonstrate against discrimination”, explains the Internet portal dedicated to youth of the European Commission. “The […]

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While the European Parliament re-convenes, after the summer, to tackle some burning issues of more particular relevance to the present time (terrorism, air safety, competition of Chinese textile products, 2006 budget), the main questions raised by the presentation of the programme of work of the British Presidency in July remain on hold: start of negotiations […]

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Tens of thousands of children are living “outside” a family and “inside” an institution in Europe. According to the data furnished by AIBI (Association of the Friends of Children), the worst situation is registered in Eastern Europe. In Russia there are over 720,000 “children of no one”: 2% of the overall juvenile population. The number […]

The cultural and civil life of a people through the centuries intersects with its religious life, with mutual influences. The point was emphasized at the 27th European Studies Week at Gazzada (Varese), sponsored by the Paul VI Ambrosian Foundation. This year it focused on the “religious history of Serbia e Bulgaria”. From 30 August to […]

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“Here we breathe an air of unity. The difficulties are not minimized, but instead of being obstacles, they have become new opportunities for meeting, mutual understanding and brotherhood”, says Monsignor Luigi Stucchi , who represented the Archbishop of Milan Dionigi Tettamanzi in chairing a round table on ecumenical dialogue in Serbia and Bulgaria at the […]

After World Youth Day in Cologne, the archdiocese of Paris has decided to focus on youth by promoting a series of initiatives aimed at not squandering the enthusiasm that the WYD aroused in the Parisians who participated in it. The first of these ventures is a “Youth Guide”: 52 pages full of useful addresses, proposals […]

Pilgrims from the Italian dioceses of Udine and Gorizia, those of Ljubljana, Maribor and Capodistria in Slovenia, and those of Klagenfurt and Graz in Austria went on pilgrimage with their bishops and priests to the Marian sanctuary of the Holy Mount, Sveta Gora, just inside Slovenia’s frontier with Italy, and in the hinterland of Gorizia […]

“It’s not a persecution mania on the part of the Church, but an intention to persecute on the part of others”, says András Veres, auxiliary bishop of Eger and secretary of the Hungarian Bishops’ Conference, in commenting on the projected social reform that would like to limit the role of the Churches in the system […]

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The elections to the “Bundestag”, the lower chamber of the German Parliament, will be held in Germany on Sunday 18 September. A total of 3,648 candidates will contest the 603 seats of the Bundestag, representing the 34 parties admitted by the electoral commission for the ballot. Competing for the post of Chancellor will be the […]