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The European Parliament will meet in plenary session from Monday 10 to Thursday 13 March 2003. The main points on the agenda are as follows: Joint discussion – Political Strategy of the European Commission 2004/Budget 2004 Guidelines; Declaration of the Commission – Annual political strategy of the European Commission (APS) for 2004; Joint discussion – […]

PHARE “Small Projects” – Tender to present bids for the “Small projects” programme of PHARE. Conferences, seminars and congresses on themes of Enlargement. Deadline for the presentation of bids: 25/4/2003. For further information, contact the European Commission, Office of Cooperation EuropeAid, Fax 00322.2959540, E-mail benedicte.bronchart@cec.eu.int, or consult the Internet site http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm (OGEC C 49/14, 1/3/2003); […]

Agenda" "

In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: Resolution of the Council, of 18 February 2003 on a European approach to a culture of security of networks and information (OGEC C 48/1, 28/2/2003); Resolution of the Council, of 18 February concerning the implementation of the plan […]

press review" "

On the eve of the Day for prayer and fasting called by the Pope to avert the threatened war in Iraq, the main international dailies continue to analyze how the American position has “changed”, after the assurances received from Baghdad on a start to the dismantling of the missile systems present in the country. “Iraq: […]

“Even though the idea of setting up a laboratory for mothers and daughters-in-law may seem a bit ridiculous, it is undeniable that bad relations with the family into which a girl has married may lead to a marriage breaking down”. The point is made by Mar Sánchez Marchori, who has run the first course of […]

Spain" "

A boat, a sail and a cross: they are the symbols of the visit that John Paul II will make to Madrid, in Spain, on 3 and 4 May. The boat, representing the Church, is “the invitation to proclaim the Gospel in contemporary society”; the sail, which has the shape of a map of Spain, […]

Great Britain" "

The chances that the ProLife Association has of winning the legal action it has brought against the British government to stop the cloning of human beings in Great Britain seem to be slight. On 19 February the case went to the examination of the House of Lords (the supreme court in the British legal system). […]

France" "

Robert Schuman, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Maurice Blondel, Josephine Bakhita, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope John XXIII are the six “witnesses” being proposed in this year’s Lenten Lectures in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, as part of the cycle of meetings “Holiness in the challenge of history. Portrait of six witnesses for the third millennium”. The […]

Africa-Europe" "

“Transparent and participative” mechanisms in the procedures for foreign debt remission, better access to drugs for the treatment of Aids, restrictions on arms exports from Europe to Africa and on the exploitation of diamonds and oil, greater dialogue between the Churches of the two continents and recognition of religious freedom: just some of the recommendations […]

The ‘Presidium’ of the Conference of the European Churches (KEK), representing 126 churches of Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic tradition from all the countries of Europe, met in Athens from 26 February to 2 March. The meeting, held at the invitation of the Orthodox archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Christodoulos, was devoted to […]