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The deterioration of the Iraqi crisis, and the intensification of clashes in the Middle East, continue to monopolise the attention of the main international dailies. “Torture and acts of barbarity. Man humiliated”, is the headline, for instance, in the French Catholic daily La Croix of 13/5, which emphasises that “the unleashing of the horrors in […]

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“Move your body, move your mind” is the slogan that has, since 1st January 2004, accompanied hundreds of events planned as part of the European Year of Education through Sport, proclaimed by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The initiative means twelve months dedicated to health and entertainment, considered essential […]

The EU Council for competition, chaired by the Irish Minister for Industry, Mary Harney, met in Brussels last Monday. The ministerial summit approved a plan of work that “identifies the priority areas for reducing trade and industry regulations, with a view to reaching an agreement by the end of 2004”. At the end of the […]

Following 11 September, the US Congress had imposed on American airlines the obligation to report the personal identity details of all passengers on arrival. But this regulation, to be interpreted in anti-terrorism terms, had given rise to strong reservations on the European side of the Atlantic. After a long standoff, the Commission has now adopted […]

One of the ideas that Brussels has come up with to familiarise citizens with the work of the European Parliament and to publicise the forthcoming elections for its renewal is a comic strip. It takes the form of a story in “instalments” based on life within the two official seats of the EP, one in […]

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According to data collected by Eurostat, Eurobarometer and the World Health Organization, 79% of the inhabitants of the Fifteen say they are satisfied with their own life, while only 61% of the ten new member states of the EU say the same. 54% of the inhabitants of the Fifteen affirm, moreover, that they are satisfied […]

Following a meeting held in Vilnius between Cardinal Audrys J. Backis and Arturas Zuokas, respectively archbishop and mayor of the Lithuanian capital, in recent days, a UN-backed programme of sex education for adolescents was cancelled. The meeting was the result of a petition addressed by over a hundred parents and by the archbishop himself to […]

“Authorizing by law that it is permissible to put an end to life on demand is not the best way to increase transparency about the procedures and attention of physicians to the terminal phase of life”. This declaration of principle is contained in a statement put out by the Dutch Bishops’ Conference in recent days. […]

Firm condemnation of the terrorist attacks in Madrid on 11 March and solidarity with the victims, satisfaction for the entry of ten new countries into the European Union, and the sharing of the concerns expressed in the keynote address by the president of the Spanish episcopate and archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, on […]

Understanding its own history and present-day reality, changing mentality, and redrawing the map: this was the course followed by the diocese of Clermont-Ferrand, at the heart of France, in the effort to adapt its own parish communities and make then more responsive to the evangelising mission of our time. The transformation is far-reaching. It is […]