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Nell’unità europea “De Gasperi vedeva soprattutto la pace e il superamento dei dissidi che avevano causato le grandi guerre del passato”. Daniela Preda , Cattedra europea Jean Monnet, insegna Storia e politica dell’integrazione europea e Storia delle relazioni internazionali all’Università di Genova. Ha da poco pubblicato un volume intitolato “Alcide De Gasperi federalista europeo”. Al […]

L’Alto commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati esprime nuovamente “preoccupazioni” sul progetto di Direttiva sulle procedure d’asilo, sulla quale il Parlamento europeo deve ancora fornire la propria opinione prima di essere adottata formalmente dal Consiglio d’Europa. La Direttiva regola le modalità attraverso cui le domande d’asilo devono essere valutate. L’Unhcr, che aveva già commentato […]

L’Osservatorio europeo sui fenomeni razzisti e xenofobi (Eumc) di Vienna ha pubblicato il 15 Marzo scorso un Rapporto intitolato “Atteggiamento della maggioranza verso le minoranze”, che analizza i dati raccolti tra il 1997 ed il 2003 in materia di emigrazione e minoranze. Il documento presenta una sorta di identikit dell'”Europeo tollerante” e favorevole alla società […]

The Pope’s state of health continues to monopolise the attention of the media in Germany. Writing in Die Welt (30/3), Michael Stürmer comments: “ This Pope remains faithful to himself in his sense of vocation and fulfilment of his obligations, literally to the end. He acts in real and a symbolic mode at the same […]

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In European unity “De Gasperi especially saw the chance for peace and the overcoming of the dissension that had caused the great wars of the past”. Daniela Preda , who holds the Jean Monnet Chair of European studies, teaches the history and policy of European integration and the history of international relations at the University […]

The UN High Commission for Refugees has expressed renewed “concerns” about the draft Directive on asylum procedures, on which the European Parliament must still express its own opinion before being formally adopted by the European Council. The Directive regulates the procedures through which asylum applications should be assessed. The UNHCR, which already commented adversely on […]

The European watchdog on racist and xenophobic phenomena (EUMC), based in Vienna, published a Report with the title “Attitudes of the majority to minorities” on 15 March. The document analyses the data gathered between 1997 and 2003 on emigration and minorities. It also presents a kind of identikit of “tolerant Europe”, of a Europe favourable […]

The decline in birth rates in the European Union has reached alarming proportions, according to a study presented in Brussels by the Commissioner responsible for social affairs and employment, Vladimir Spidla. The majority of member states in fact present by now a birth rate just above one child per family (the European average was 1.48 […]

The European Commission began a public consultation last week to collect data and opinions on future EU legislation on divorce between spouses who are citizens of two different member states. The new legislation is supposed to be adopted by 2006. The Executive accompanied the launch of the consultation with the presentation of a Green Paper, […]

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The main events involving the Catholic Church, the other Christian Churches and the main institutions of Europe in April 1 Meeting of the coordination group of the European Committee for university apostolate (1-3), under the aegis of the CCEE (Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe), at Bratislava. 2 Denmark and other countries of Europe […]