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The controversy aroused by the ordination of a gay bishop in the USA and the blessing of homosexual “marriages” in Canada is still bitter and causing great suffering within the Anglican Communion. At the end of an emergency meeting held in Northern Ireland from 20 to 25 February, the more traditionalist bishops asked their colleagues […]

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What is Europe? “A sum of symbolic places”: that’s the conclusion of a group of German, Polish, Slovene and Spanish academics during an international day on “Europe and its Symbols”, promoted by the Jean Monnet chair of the university of Navarre and held at Navarre (Spain) in recent days. We spoke about the meeting with […]

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A denunciation of the sale of babies and the traffic of women and children from Bulgaria to countries of the European Union is contained in the last report of the European Council for Criminality. To tackle the problem, the Assembly of the Council of Europe decided in January to draw up a kind of European […]

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, and the President of the Central Council of Jews, Paul Spiegel, met in Mainz on 25 February. Both had expressed concern about the “reinforcement of extremist right-wing and anti-semitic tendencies in German society and in other European countries”. Lehmann and Spiegel declared “their relief about […]

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Hungarian Catholic priests accused of having spied for the Communist regime were “victims of a cruel system whose founders and perpetuators could still be in power today. These politicians don’t have any moral justification for condemning those who had this role” and the atmosphere that has been created “serves only to attack the Church and […]

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Modern Western societies, including that of Europe, are going through a crisis of values, a crisis of hope, that testifies to a profound change in the individual relations with life and with death. The risk is that we forget, or deny, that death forms part of life, that it forms part of the logic of […]

Issues of domestic policy, and especially unemployment, are given extensive coverage in the German press. A comment in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Faz – 2/3) says: “ The Schröder government has come to terms – and in this it has nothing to envy its predecessors in opposition – with the scandal of the labour market, […]

Le vicende di politica interna e particolarmente la disoccupazione, vengono seguite attentamente dalla stampa tedesca. Sulla Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (faz – 2/3), si legge: “ Il governo Schröder si è arrangiato – e in ciò non ha niente da invidiare ai suoi predecessori all’opposizione – con lo scandalo del mercato del lavoro, dimostrato prima da […]

“Abbiamo scelto di concentrarci su ciò che ci unisce e non su ciò che ci divide”. È il commento del commissario Ue alla giustizia, libertà e sicurezza Franco Frattini a seguito dell’esclusione forzata del riferimento al bando dei simboli dell’odio razziale nel testo della decisione quadro sul razzismo e la xenofobia durante la riunione del […]

Ha assunto dimensioni politiche l’ affaire dell’esclusione della lingua italiana dal novero delle lingue ufficiali utilizzate nel corso delle conferenze stampa della Commissione. A fine novembre, infatti, per mezzo del capo dei portavoce Françoise Le Bail l’esecutivo aveva annunciato a sorpresa di limitare a tre – inglese, francese e tedesco – il numero delle cabine […]