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The news of the death of Yasser Arafat in the pages of the European press necessarily travelled by Internet. For the dailies went to press before 3.30 am, the time at which the death of the Palestinian leader was officially announced. “ Yasser Arafat, the eternal combatant”, is the headline in La Croix on the […]

Last week’s European Summit confirmed and reinforced the European commitment to the Middle East and Iraq, two of the areas most in crisis in which the European presence is still in good measure controversial. As far as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is concerned, the EU High Representative for external policy Javier Solana has presented a new […]

“Privileged interlocutor in Southern Europe and leader for Euro-Mediterranean policy”: these are the objectives of the new “Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion”, a project officially launched at the beginning of November and involving two French Regions (Midi-Pyrenées and Languedoc-Roussillon) and three Spanish ones (Aragon, Catalogna and Balearic Islands). The new Euroregion – that is added to a dozen […]

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The creation of an “Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion” that may facilitate the coordination of activities of cooperation between the countries of the Adriatic, help support a more efficient management of common resources and ensure the conditions for a harmonious and sustainable development in the area: that’s the idea floated at the Congress of the local and regional […]

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The death of Yasser Arafat in the hospital at Percy, in France, at 3.30 am on 11 November, has aroused reactions in many European episcopates and institutions, as also in the Holy See. Over ten meetings were held between John Paul II and the Palestinian leader between 1982 and 2001. THE POPE’S CONDOLENCES. On hearing […]

Europe is growing, and studies and research on the present and future Union are proliferating. Among the more recent publications we may report: N. Moussis, “Guide to European Policies”, European Study Service, Rixensart (Belgium) 2004, pp. 474. Moussis worked for many years in the European Commission; he is now professor at the University of Atlanta […]

The European Council discussed and approved a document entitled “Reinforcing liberty, justice and security in the EU”. The document is intended to lay the foundations for future EU policy in the specific fields of asylum, immigration, frontier controls and the fight against terrorism. As far as immigration is concerned, the key principles of future policies […]

On 8 November, to mark the end of Ramadan, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops’ Conference, issued the traditional message of greetings to the Islamic community in Germany. Lehmann placed the Iraqi conflict at the centre of his remarks. “At the present time our thoughts go with deep concern to people in Iraq, […]

Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and archbishop of Westminster, expressed in recent days a willingness to “offer the assistance of the Catholic community to the Moslem community in every possible way”. Receiving in Westminster Sheik Badawi, chairman of the Council of imams and mosques, accompanied by […]

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The Feast of St. Andrew Apostle, patron of the Church of Constantinople (Turkey) and of the ecumenical Patriarchate, annually celebrated on 30 November, will have a solemn anticipation this year. On Saturday 27 November, Patriarch Bartholomew I will be received in audience in the Vatican by John Paul II and receive from the Pope’s own […]