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The unemployment rate for the 25-member Europe still stood at 9% in August 2004, according to the latest survey of Eurostat (the statistical bureau of the European Commission). The figure – the same as that for July – does however register an improvement over that for the previous year, when the overall percentage of the […]

“Promoting the safer use of the Internet and the new on-line technologies”: that’s the objective of the EU plurennial programme “Safer Internet Plus”, proposed by the Commission this year and currently in phase of approval. With its new programme the Union intends to pay special attention to the protection of childhood, through the adoption of […]

“Money, alone, cannot solve the problems of the environment, but it can undoubtedly make a contribution”, said European Commissioner for the environment Margot Wallstroem, in presenting the Executive’s proposal relating to the new programme “Life +” to the press in recent days. Destined to become the only financial instrument of the EU exclusively dedicated to […]

The European Commission published its “Fifth annual Report on the social situation in Europe” in early October. It is for the first time extended to the ten new member states. The main conclusion – apart from the statistical data of the lowering of living standards in the 25-member Union due to the low GDP of […]

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“Humanism and Mediterranean” is the theme of a cycle of lectures being held by the International Association ‘Political Charity’ and begun in Rome in recent days with the intervention, among others, of OTTO OF HABSBURG (91 years old), former deputy in the European Parliament and son of Charles I of Austria , beatified on 3 […]

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“In Morocco half young people between the ages of 15 and 25 have just one idea: getting out… It’s not difficult to understand why”, says Archbishop VINCENT LANDEL of Rabat. He will be one of the participants at the symposium of African and European bishops to be held in Rome from 10 to 13 November, […]

“Why was the decision taken to suspend the treatment for Charlotte Wyatt? If the decision was due to the intention to put an end to a life to which, mistakenly, no value is given, then it is tantamount to euthanasia by omission. Each life has value and no life ought to be deliberately terminated because […]

After having ‘visited’ Scotland, the papal icon of Our Lady “Seat of Wisdom” arrived in England on 6 October. The image, a mosaic commissioned from the Slovene artist Marko Ivan Rupnik by the Pope on the occasion of the silver Jubilee of his pontificate, was welcomed by the Catholic community of Liverpool headed by Archbishop […]

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“I am deeply saddened by the news of the killing of Kenneth Bigley”, declared the Catholic Primate of England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, archbishop of Westminster, commenting on the execution of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley, kidnapped in Iraq by Islamic terrorists of the Tawhid Wal Jihad (Monotheism and Holy War) group. “At this […]

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After Vienna in 2003, the International Congress for the new evangelization will be held in Paris this year, from 23 October to 1st November. An opportunity for reflection and exchange, the congress will also be for Paris a week of evangelization, which is already mobilizing parishes and communities. It is a genuine city-wide event comprising […]