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The Plan for the assignment of carbon dioxide quotas, in conformity with the Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouses gases, formally came into force on 1st January. But only ten National Plans have so far been finally approved by the EU’s executive Commission. Eleven are still in process of completion, while four (those of […]

0.3%: that’s what the growth in GDP in the Euro zone and in the 25-member Europe amounts to, according to the latest data published last week by Eurostat (the EU statistics bureau) relating to the third quarter of 2004. Although half a percentage point lower than the growth registered in the second quarter, an average […]

“Making mental health a political priority for the European Union”: that’s the pledge made by Marcos Kyprianou, EU Commissioner for public health, during the European ministerial Conference of the World Health Organization (WHO) held in Helsinki last week. The figures presented by the EU in terms of mental health – especially depression – and the […]

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He’s more European than the Europeans. Convinced that the Union of the Twenty-Five is “the greatest political experiment being conducted today, with ethical implications of extreme importance”, Jeremy Rifkin is a great fan of the process of integration. He even accepted the invitation of the President of the Parliament in Strasbourg to attend the vote […]

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The introduction of a “green card” for immigrants legally entitled to work in the EU and a European “labour exchange” to provide a clearing house for the supply and demand of manpower from abroad: these are just some of the proposals contained in the Green Paper on “economic migration” presented in recent days by the […]

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Economic and social development in Europe, new guidelines in terms of internal security in the Union and the right of asylum, and the problems of pollution in Alpine valleys are some of the issues treated in the last number for 2004 of “Europe infos”, the monthly bulletin of the Commission of the Episcopates of the […]

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The enlargement of the European Union to 25 states was hailed with understandable enthusiasm on 1st May. After the perhaps excessive hopes in rapid integration, various difficulties are now beginning to emerge. In the current political and social climate, no innovations can be seen on the horizon that may mark the life of the new […]

Numerous comments appear in the European press about the results of the recent Palestinian elections. Writing in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (11/1), Wolfgang Lerch comments: “ Now it’s up to those directly involved to take intelligent initiatives to revive the already existing projects or develop new ones. The Israeli prime minister has already announced that […]

The reforms of EU agricultural policy also affect the 10 countries that recently joined the Union. If the Maltese and Slovene governments have decided to adopt the reform introducing the single payment per farm from 2007, the other eight countries have opted to apply the so-called “regime of single payment per surface area” from 1st […]

The latest reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) officially came into force in 10 member states of the Union on 1st January 2005. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Sweden and the UK in fact represent the “pioneers” for the application of the new regime of single payment per farm, as a […]