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On Monday 9 May 50 world leaders commemorated the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War at a ceremony in Moscow’s Red Square. The day of celebration was marked by a military parade, the placing of a wreath on the monument to the Unknown Soldier and a gala dinner. It also served […]

“Save the Children”, the most important humanitarian organization active on behalf of children at the world level, recently appealed to the European Union, asking it “to do more to eliminate child poverty”. Save the Children presented a report at the European Parliament, according to which there are over 600 million children in the world living […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) presented its Annual Report for 2004 in Frankfurt last week. Despite the Bank’s repeatedly stressed “dissatisfaction” with the health of the public accounts of at least half of the member states, in general terms the ECB expresses confidence in the gradual recovery of the European economy. Yet there are two […]

The European Commissioners have for the first time approved a procedural mechanism aimed at ensuring the full compatibility of future legislative proposals with the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. Presenting the provisions to the press, the President of the European Commission Josè Durao Barroso emphasized the “determination to firmly anchor […]

The European Commission last week adopted a new action programme aimed at reinforcing EU support for third countries in combating aids, malaria and tuberculosis. In this way the EU Executive proposes some specific measures to stem the advance of these diseases that are causing the death of over six million people each year in the […]

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Ever since 1950 the Charlemagne Prize has been an annual appointment with the “European spirit”. Each year the prize presentation ceremony permits some of the major personalities involved in the realization of a united Europe to meet together in Aachen in Germany. This year’s Prize has been awarded to Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the […]

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“Today, after the membership of ten new member states, the project of the European Union needs to be re-animated according to the spirit that lay at its origin, in 1950”. The great challenge for Europe today is to understand “how to revive the enthusiasm of our peoples for the European cause and for the idea […]

“ La stella dello show è stato Papa Benedetto”: questo il titolo scelto da The Catholic Herald (29/04) per un commento di p. Sean Finnegan alle prime liturgie, partendo da quella di intronizzazione, per l’avvio del pontificato di Benedetto XVI. “ Molti di coloro che erano preoccupati per le cose poco caritatevoli che erano state […]

In occasione del 60° anniversario della fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, la Chiesa cattolica e la Chiesa evangelica tedesca celebreranno l’8 maggio una funzione ecumenica a Berlino che verrà presieduta dal presidente della Conferenza episcopale tedesca, card. Karl Lehmann, dal presidente del Consiglio della Chiesa evangelica, vescovo Wolfgang Huber, dall’arcivescovo di Berlino, card. Georg Sterzinsky […]

Si svolgerà ad Atene dal 9 al 16 maggio 2005 la conferenza ecumenica mondiale sulla missione, promossa dalla Cwme (Commission on World Mission and Evangelism) che è l’organismo missionario del Cec di Ginevra (Consiglio ecumenico delle Chiese). Rispetto al passato, quella di Atene sarà la conferenza missionaria mondiale più ‘inclusiva’, per il fatto che vi […]