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European citizens entertain serious doubts about the effectiveness of EU foreign policy. On the other hand, they recognize in the EU some moderate ability to intervene in favour of the development of the world’s poorer countries, in terms of cooperation and humanitarian aid. This is the finding of a survey conducted by Eurobarometer: it should […]

Now that the Spanish referendum of 20 February has passed (voters: 42%; favourable to the approval of the Constitutional Treaty: 76%), the process for the ratification of the European Constitution in the 25 member states continues. After the favourable vote of the parliaments of Lithuania, Slovenia and Hungary, and the “yes” of the Spanish people, […]

“Europe is not built in Brussels”: addressing the assembly of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 24 February, the President of the European Commission José Manuel Durao Barroso recalled the essential role of the cities and regions in building Europe, which is born from below. Barroso had been called to present the programme […]

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Twelve months’ “full immersion” to bring the national and European institutions closer to citizens and to revive participative democracy: that is the objective set by the Council of Europe (based in Strasbourg, 46 member states, 800 million inhabitants) in proclaiming 2005 “European Year of citizenship through education”. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio , the Council’s deputy general […]

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The Year of the Eucharist, inaugurated at Guadalajara, Mexico, on 17 October 2004, on the occasion of the World Eucharistic Congress, has been received in the Churches of the various European countries with a series of declarations and events. The plenary assembly of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), held in recent days, devoted a lot […]

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One priest for every 750 faithful in 2001, one for every 450 in 1911: the decline in vocations in the Catholic Church of England and Wales, since the beginning of the last century, is undeniable. But it is a trend that has undergone variations. “Usually the crisis of vocations in the UK is described as […]

The contribution of the European bishops to the renewal of the Lisbon Strategy – also in view of the European Council to be held on 22-23 March – is contained in a paper presented in recent days, signed by the executive committee of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union). The document […]

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“Bosnia Herzegovina has no future if a situation of ‘unjust peace’ persists and if equal rights are denied to the three main ethnic groups (Bosnians, Serbs and Croats)”. That’s the appeal to the international and local community made by the presidents of the Episcopal Conferences of South-East Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and […]

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After the fall of the Iron Curtain and with it the Communist regimes of the countries of Eastern Europe, and after some of them became members of the European Union on 1st May 2004, and even of NATO, the historical archives are now being re-opened and new light being shed on many domestic events and […]

Sulle conseguenze della visita di Bush in Germania si interrogano i commentatori tedeschi . Sulla Frankfurter Rundschau (23/2), Martin Winter scrive: “ Chi vuole misurare l’abisso tra Usa e Unione europea deve guardare cosa non c’è stato durante il vertice: una dichiarazione congiunta. […] Annunciare con idealismo la lotta per la libertà in tutto il […]