Redazione

Malta e la Comunità europea hanno firmato un Trattato di associazione nel 1970 che mirava alla costituzione di una “Unione doganale” che però non si e’ mai realizzata anche a causa dei vantaggi, secondo alcuni non sufficienti, che ne avrebbe tratto Malta stessa. L’attuazione del Trattato fu via via rimandata fino ad essere superata dalla […]

I 10 DEL 1° MAGGIO (3)" "

Nella rassegna degli Stati che il 1° maggio faranno ingresso nell’Unione europea, questa settimana è la volta di Malta che, dopo un percorso lungo e accidentato iniziato nel 1970 con il Trattato di associazione, arriva al traguardo europeo con numerose aspettative. Significativo l’impegno della Chiesa. Già presentate Cipro (Sir n.14/2004) e Polonia (Sir n.15/2004). “L’IMPEGNO […]

PENSIERI" "

“I giovani non sono più come un tempo”. È quel che dicono spesso le generazioni più anziane: un’affermazione vera e falsa allo stesso tempo. Certamente, i giovani sono cambiati, in Germania come in Europa. Gli stili di vita, le tendenze nella società, la moda e la musica sono diversi rispetto a “prima”. Ma è anche […]

Esa" "

It’s a golden moment for ESA, the European Space Agency, which is emerging as one of the great protagonists of research to unlock the secrets of the stars in the sky and the universe. And while the spotlights are turned on Kourou, the European cosmodrome situated in French Guinea, for the launch of the Rosetta […]

A dossier published in the French paper “Le Nouvel Observateur” with the title “The Evangelicals: a sect that wants to conquer the world” has triggered an immediate reaction from Evangelicals and Protestants in France. In a letter to the authors of the article, the secretary of the French Evangelical Alliance, pastor Stéphan Lauzet, denies the […]

A third Anglican province apart from Canterbury and York, with an independent archbishop and its own hierarchy separate from the rest of the Church of England, in which all the faithful contrary to the ordination of women bishops could find a home: the proposal is made by the archbishop of York David Hope, second in […]

Ecumenism" "

Over 10,000 members of 160 Christian movements and communities (Catholics, Anglicans and Orthodox) from all over Europe will meet in Stuttgart on 8th May to celebrate the enlargement of the EU to ten new countries in Eastern and Southern Europe (on 1st May). The event – promoted by an organizing committee that comprises, among Catholic […]

switzerland " "

Not all the countries of Europe have taken the road towards European integration. Of the few States that still remain outside the frontiers of the EU, Switzerland is looking to the Union with interest, signs bilateral accords with Brussels (the problems of “banking confidentiality” and the Schengen treaty for the circulation of persons still remain […]

rom and sinti" "

Four times the population of Slovenia, double that of Ireland, more than that of Austria and roughly the same as that of Sweden: gipsies form a group of some 9 million people scattered all over Europe and are present in almost all the member states of the Council of Europe. There are in all eighteen […]

An occasion to pay tribute to women: that’s the Romanian tradition of the “martisor” (pronounced “marzziscior”), as explained by Gabriel Mateescu in an article in the illustrated magazine “Lumea credinþei” (The World of Faith), reported on the site of the Romanian Episcopal Conference (ww.w.catholica.ro). Historically, says the author, the tradition “was only found in the […]