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Unemployment is stable in the Euro zone. Eurostat – the statistics bureau of the Community – has published the data for October 2004, according to which the average unemployment rate of the countries of the Euro zone remained unvaried at 8.9%, the same as for September, and the same as that registered last year. The […]

Faced by multiple challenges on the international political scene, the European Union must develop and implement an effective common foreign policy, able to guarantee the capacity of acting, of responding to the new emergencies and of being a protagonist of global economic governance, human development and a model of democracy based on the rule of […]

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Collegiality between the Episcopal Conferences of Europe, the ecumenical process and the role of the Churches in society and in the culture of the continent have been the main commitments of European bishops also in recent months. The plenary assembly of the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Europe (Ccee), held at Leeds from 30 September […]

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“Thinking of the family in the context of European citizenship means warning of the dangers of forms of perversion and deviance in order to recall the sense of responsible citizenship” since “being a citizen means concerning oneself with the common good and accepting one’s own responsibility towards the authority of the law”. The law also […]

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Only in Sweden, Denmark and Finland are women real protagonists of change and promoters of social transformations. In the rest of Europe, albeit with significant differences between one State and another, women do not enjoy the same opportunities for personal, social and professional growth as men. But significant lessons can be learned in this respect […]

The results of the public consultation on the Executive’s Green Paper “Equality and non-discrimination in the enlarged European Union” have been published on the Internet site of the European Commission http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/fundamental_rights/greenpaper_fr.htm. Of the over 1500 contributions, a very large majority ask the Union to step up its commitment against any type of discrimination: in particular, […]

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The family is the “bulwark for the construction of the united Europe”. But it is also “point of intersection of all EU policies”, and the “pillar of modern society” that still awaits “to be given its rightful value at the educational and social level”. Comece, Commission of the episcopates of the European Community, has revived […]

The European Commission has recently launched, on the website http://europa.eu.int/yourvoice/forms/dispatch?form=356lang=FR, a public consultation to gather information and views with a view to the drawing up of a new EU Action Plan for the reduction of atmospheric pollution, whose publication is scheduled for the second half of 2005. The need for the new Action Plan emerges […]

The “Ukrainian question”, on the day on which the two leaders (winner and loser) reached provisional agreement on a re-run of the presidential elections, continues to draw the attention of the main international dailies. “The Ukrainian political leaders – writes Judy Dempsey in the Herald Tribune (2/12) – reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday night […]

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Ukraine, Turkey, Aids: these were the three issues that dominated the parliamentary session in early December in the parliament building in Brussels. The Assembly wished to add further voice to the EU’s refusal to recognise the results of the recent presidential elections in Ukraine, and to call for a new ballot. MEPs also insisted on […]