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An appeal to the rulers of Ivory Coast to restore “a lasting peace” to the population of the country and an appeal to France not to forget Africa are contained in a declaration issued by the French Episcopal Conference and signed by Bishop Marc Stenger of Troyes, president of Pax Christi, and Bishop Francois Maupu […]

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Attracting “brains” by investing in research; facilitating the free internal circulation of capital and goods; creating an environment favourable for businesses; promoting the vocational training of the young and “active ageing” to develop the labour market; and providing incentives for eco-compatible products: these are the five main proposals that emerge from the “Kok Report”, presented […]

The European Forum on Disability, an organization that defends the interests of 50 million disabled persons in Europe, has expressed satisfaction about the approval of the European Constitution that reaffirms the principle of non-discrimination as one of the objectives of the European Union. The Forum shares the recent statements of the incoming President of the […]

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For the first time, the president of the French bishops, Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard, has expressed a robust position on the secularism of the State that has been dividing French public opinion over the last few months. “There cannot be religious freedom if there is not freedom of expression and the freedom to communicate one’s own […]

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Support of the EU Parliament, thematic competitions, fundraising with recipe books… the initiatives to promote the 20th World Youth Day (WYD), due to take place in Cologne, Germany, from 11 to 21 August 2005, are now innumerable . The WYD Cross continues its pilgrimage through Germany: its last stopping place was the diocese of Magdeburg, […]

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Europe is calling Africa, Africa is calling Europe: a symposium of African and European bishops is to be held in Rome from 10 to 13 November to discuss issues of communion and solidarity old.agensir.it . Below we present a brief review of relations between the two continents, a responsibility that is also enunciated in the […]

“Bush is in the lead, but not yet re-elected”, is the headline in Le Monde (4/11), which does not yet officially concede victory to Bush because “the final result is suspended pending completion of the vote count in Ohio”. In this regard, the French daily notes: “ This uncertainty might lead one to fear a […]

Cautiously positive projections have been made about the rate of inflation in the EU. The group of economists of the European Commission, charged with studying trends in inflation rates, recently presented its own estimates for the next two years: with reference to the 25-member EU, inflation ought, they say, to stabilise at 2.2% in 2004, […]

In spite of guarded optimism about the growth of the European economy as a whole, the estimates of Brussels on national deficits are giving rise to concerns about the budgets of various EU member states. The Commission – which presented its own autumn forecasts of economic policy in the course of the last plenary session […]

The Commission published on 26 October a report on the need to guarantee adequate financial resources and more transparent controls for the dismantling of nuclear power stations. Member states have already assumed the commitment to close by 2025 over fifty nuclear reactors considered at risk, either to build new ones (where possible) or invest more […]