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The Colloquium “God and Europe? Religious freedom and political freedom in the founding treaties of the new Europe” was held in Brussels, at the headquarters of the European Parliament on 3 April. Promoted by the Foundation for political service, by the Convention of Christians for Europe (CCE) and by a group of eleven Catholic MEPs, […]

The European Parliament will meet in Strasbourg in plenary session from Monday 7 to Thursday 10 April. The main points on the agenda are as follows: Erasmus World Programme 2004-2008; E-learning Programme 2004-2006; Joint discussion – Balance-sheet of budget for 2001; Reform of Conventions on drugs; Joint discussion – Europol; EU strategy of information and […]

LATIN AMERICA/INVESTMENTS – Tender to present bids for the third phase of the programme Al-Invest for cooperation between small and medium European and Latin-American businesses. Deadline for the presentation of bids: 6/6/2003. For further information, European Commission, Office of EuropeAid Cooperation, E-mail Adrianus.Koetsenruijter@cec.eu.int, or consult the website http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm.

“Dr. Osama Salé quietly entered the major burns unit in the Kindi hospital and warned us: ‘You’ll now see the world’s greatest tragedy'”. In publishing the shocking photo of a 12-year-old Iraqi boy – who has lost both arms and his whole family (father, mother and two brothers) as a result of the Anglo-American bombing […]

“Number of judges, their appointment, and duration of their term of office”: these are the points touched on by the chairman of the European Convention’s ‘discussion circle’ on the Court of Justice, European Commissioner Antonio Vitorino, in the report he presented to the Convention in recent days. As regards the number of judges, the majority […]

In spite of the upbeat messages that came out of the last Ecofin Council at the end of March on the state of health of EU finances, the European Commissioner for the economy Pedro Solbes de Mira recently declared that the prospects for the economy of the EU countries in the short term “are not […]

The report on the impact and consequences of enlargement, compiled by former Dutch prime minister Wim Kok at the request of Romano Prodi and the Commissioner for enlargement Guenther Verheugen, was presented in Brussels on Wednesday 26 March. The document stresses that the success of enlargement consists especially in the chance it provides of permanently […]

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“Abolishing dumping is good for everyone!”. That’s the slogan that unites many aid organizations in Europe (including the Italian ‘Volunteers in the World-FOCSIV’ and the English ‘CAFOD’) and throughout the world to press for an end to the protectionist regime in agriculture which “is starving two thirds of humanity”. What is curbing the economic growth […]

In view of the approaching general elections, to be held on 12 April, Archbishop Joseph Mercieca of Malta and Archbishop Nicholas J. Cauchi of Gozo have addressed a pastoral letter to the faithful, with the title: “Our duty to our nation”. “The Church – write the bishops – has the task of educating and forming […]

Therapeutic clones, pre-implant and prenatal diagnosis and active assistance to the dying will be at the centre of the next “Week of Life 2003”, the annual event organized jointly by the German Episcopal Conference and the Council of the Evangelic Churches, due to open in Bayreuth, Germany, on 3 May. “Possibilities and limits of medical […]