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It’s called “European Manual of Integration”, and was presented on the impulse of the European Commission during the Groeningen Conference of EU Ministers and a group of independent experts who collaborated with the national “Points of Integration Contact” coordinated by Brussels. It’s a document that contains the best practices of the policies of the 25 […]

The first European inter-ministerial Conference on integration policies, organized on the initiative of the current Dutch Presidency of the European Council, was held in Groeningen, in Holland, from 9 to 11 November. Starting from the assumption that “the adoption of an effective policy for integration is important not only for the stability and cohesion within […]

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Another week packed with important events for the European Union in which what’s at stake for the Twenty-Five is a good part of the credibility built up in citizens with the success of enlargement and the Constitution. Attention is now focused especially on Strasbourg, where the plenary session of the European Parliament is being held, […]

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The lack of children, the problem of artificial insemination, the hope born at Mariazell, during the Pilgrimage of Peoples (22-23 May 2004), and a heartfelt appeal for peace in the Holy Land: these were some of the issues discussed by the Austrian Episcopal Conference, meeting at Salzburg from 8 to 10 November. Here is a […]

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After the murder of film director Theo Van Gogh on 2 November, many attacks on Moslem buildings, but also on Catholic schools and churches, have been reported in the Netherlands. There was an arson attack on a Catholic school at Eindhoven on the afternoon of 10 November and one classroom was set alight. On the […]

The 5th national pilgrimage organized by the Commission for the Holy Land in Krakow in Poland took place from 4 to 10 November 2004. Some 300 pilgrims from various parts of Poland arrived in the Holy Land: they had responded to the invitation of Father Nikodem Gdyk and Father Paschalis Kwoczala, Commissioner and Vice-Commissioner of […]

“Satisfaction but also concern”: that’s the comment of the Bishop of Lancaster, Msgr. Patrick O’Donoghue on the Report drawn up by Annie Owens, chief inspector of prisons in England, in which the conditions in which young refugees are being held in the reception centres set up by the government are denounced. The Report reveals that […]

There are over 4 million unemployed in Germany: a deeply felt problem that the Schröder government is trying to tackle with the controversial Hartz laws, which provide for the introduction of far-reaching reforms in the labour sector. In the diocese of Rottenburg Stuttgart, the patronal feast of St. Martin on 11 November includes a traditional […]

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“Communion and solidarity between Africa and Europe” is the theme of the Symposium promoted by the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) and the Council of the Episcopal Conferences of Europe (CCEE), held under the auspices of the Holy See’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in Rome from 10 to 13 November. 150 […]

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Over the last few days, thinking of Europe, I have often repeated to myself: “finally we are beginning to open our eyes…!” For those who dreamt of a Europe of values, of well-being, of tolerance and pluralism, it’s a brutal re-awakening into the cold light of day after a beautiful dream, in observing that toleration […]