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The proposal of the European Commission to allocate 1 billion euros to the endowment of the 9th European Development Fund “to improve access to water supplies and to sanitary facilities for the populations of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) was adopted last week. The new fund is aimed to boost the efficiency in […]

The pan-European interministerial Conference on “new prospects for growth in an enlarged Europe” is due to be held in Budapest on 26-27 February. The aim of the two-day conference is to evaluate the progress made in the implementation, on the one hand, of the EU action plan for the information society “eEurope+” (member states and […]

The European Commission held an internal debate on 28 January to review the situation as regards genetically modified organisms (GMO). The assessment – four years after the previous one – summed up the progress made in the sector since then. It emerged from the meeting that the Union has been able to equip itself with […]

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The European Year of Education through Sport (EYES) with the slogan “Move your body, stretch your mind” is now in full swing. The EU is dedicating 2004, a significant year in terms of enlargement, European elections and negotiations on the Constitution, to a sector that interests almost all the citizens of the EU and that […]

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EU budget and financial prospects are once again at the centre of debate in European institutional headquarters, especially in view of the EU’s imminent enlargement to ten new member states. The Commission has prepared a document which will be discussed next week during the session of Parliament in Strasbourg, in which an exponent of the […]

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In 2002, 6 Dutch out of 10 over the age of 18 considered themselves members of a religious “family” and 2 out of 10 had been at least once per month to a church or mosque. These findings emerge from the data published by CBS, the country’s statistical bureau, in December 2003. According to the […]

The “Year of Mercè” has ended in Barcelona. This diocesan project dedicated to the city’s patron has achieved its objective of sensitising the faithful to “slavery today”. The Year was celebrated in tandem with the 8th centenary of the Order of Mercenaries, founded in the Catalan capital, and was a pretext to enable many faithful […]

As part of the programme of the Katholikentag of the Catholics of Central Europe (MEKT), a symposium on “Society and economy in the process of change” was held at Wels, in Austria, between 28 and 30 January. Various bishops representing the eight countries participating in the Katholikentag took part in the meeting. The Catholics of […]

The 47th plenary assembly of the Slovak Episcopal Conference (KBS) was held at Spišská Kapitula in Slovakis on 27/28 January. All 17 members of the episcopate were present. The Nuncio apostolic in Slovakia, Msgr, Henryk Jozef Nowacki, also participated in the assembly. In his opening speech he thanked all those who had contributed to the […]

Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops’ Conference, intervened at a press conference held in Cologne in late January to present the project “Solidarity with persecuted and oppressed Christians”. He spoke in particular of the situation of Christians in Nigeria, to which the project (now in its second year) is dedicated this year. “The […]