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“La legge approvata quest’estate dal Parlamento norvegese sull’impegno che gli sposi prendono con le nozze e sulla assicurazione della reciproca libertà di divorzio non ci trova d’accordo”: lo dice il vescovo di Trondheim, mons. Georg Muller, in una dichiarazione in cui evidenzia i problemi che una simile decisione comporta. “La dichiarazione prevede che gli sposi […]

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“La Chiesa cattolica di Svezia esprime soddisfazione per il fatto che oltre l’80% dei cittadini svedesi si è recato a votare sostenendo in tal modo i principi democratici sui quali si fonda la nostra società”. Così il vescovo di Stoccolma, mons. Anders Arborelius, ha commentato a SirEuropa il massiccio afflusso alle urne di domenica scorsa […]

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Neppure uno Stato “neutro” dal punto di vista ideologico può “ridurre la religione ad un fatto privato”, ma deve “riconoscerla ed apprezzarla nella vita pubblica”. Così mons. Reinhard Marx , vescovo di Treviri (Germania) e presidente della Commissione “Justitia et Pax” tedesca, interviene in merito al dibattito sulle “radici cristiane”. In questa prospettiva si sofferma […]

“The United States faced by growing Iraqi hostility”: that’s the front-page headline in the Herald Tribune (18/9), in an article in which Douglas Jehl and David E. Sanger point out that the “most formidable enemy” in Iraq, in these months, “may be the resentment of the ordinary Iraqi to American military occupation”. This is an […]

The environment programme of the Italian Presidency of the European Union was presented to the European Parliament on 9 September. It is based on “positive actions rather than on the ideology of prohibitions”. The Italian Presidency intends to accelerate and qualify the necessary European shift from a negative culture of “command and control” to a […]

The “Cartagena Protocol on biosafety” came into force on 11 September. The protocol is intended to promote a safe use and correct management of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and is aimed to protect human health from the potential risks deriving from GMOs. Signed by 103 states, it has been ratified only by 57 countries, of […]

Life is undeniably difficult for the unemployed, who have a mortality rate five times higher than that of those in permanent jobs in Europe. This is one of the findings of the report on social life in Europe in 2003, published by the European Commission on 9 September. It also emerges from the same report […]

A report by the European Observatory of racist and xenophobic phenomena, headed by the Council of Europe, has denounced serious forms of discrimination against communities of the Rom (or Romany) ethnic group. The accusations are particularly levelled against Romania and Slovakia. According to the Observatory, the difficulties and sometimes the impediments to access to public […]

Following the joint report of the Commission and Council on “adequate and sustainable pensions”, the social affairs and employment Commission of the European Parliament approved a report in which it invited member states to give priority in their own budgets to the funding of pensions systems. In the view of MEPs, it is essential that […]

The informal Council of EU Ministers of the economy and finance met at Stresa on 12 and 13 September. The meeting tackled the issues of the reduction of VAT, the excessive bureaucracy that is hampering commercial and financial transactions and the relation between the Euro area and the Asian system. As regards an analysis of […]