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Concludendo l’Angelus di domenica 8 dicembre, Giovanni Paolo II ha invitato a pregare per “i responsabili politici che si riuniranno a Copenaghen”nei giorni 12 e 13 dicembre per concludere i negoziati per l’adesione di dieci nuovi Paesi membri dell’Unione Europea. “Questo continente – ha commentato il Papa – potrà così arricchirsi dell’apporto delle tradizioni culturali […]

Chiamato a formalizzare l’allargamento ai primi dieci Paesi candidati, il Consiglio Affari Generali del 10 dicembre a Bruxelles è riuscito solo parzialmente a trovare un’intesa sui pacchetti negoziali ancora aperti. Alle ultime offerte fatte dalla presidenza danese – che rappresentano un aumento di 1.6 miliardi di euro rispetto alla spesa globale decisa dal Consiglio Europeo […]

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Save for some dramatic last-minute hitch, ten new countries will enter the common European home on 1st May 2002: namely, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. In all, over 73 million people, who will raise the total number of European citizens to roughly half a billion. With the […]

The solemn audience to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Court of Justice of the European Community was held in the institution’s headquarters in Luxembourg on 4 December. Founded in 1952, the Court of Justice occupies a place of great significance in the institutional system designed by the Treaties. To it is assigned, in particular, […]

The commissions of the European Parliament will meet in Brussels from 9 to 12 December 2002. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · New proposals for the European strategy for employment (Commission for employment and social affairs, rapporteur: Mann); · Discussion behind closed doors – “Crimes against the environment” (Commission for the […]

In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Accord of cooperation between the European Atomic Energy Commission and the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine in the sector of nuclear safety (OGEC L 322/33, 27/11/2002); · Decision of the Commission, of 26 November 2002, conferring […]

“A lost opportunity for secularism in Greece”: that’s how Valia Kaimaki, writing in Le Monde diplomatique (December 2002), calls the “pressures” of the Orthodox Church on the State, repeated after the local elections in October, but at the centre of political debate for at least two years. “Orthodox Archbishop Christodoulos – recalls Kaimaki – has […]

The Commission for citizens’ liberties and rights, justice and internal affairs of the European Parliament is discussing this week the draft report of the Dutch sociologist Joke Swiebel on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union for the year 2001. The report, annually commissioned by the EP, is aimed at providing a general […]

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In the course of its meeting on 5 December, the European Commission will formally approve a document aimed at the Convention on the future of Europe containing the Executive’s proposals on the reform of the Community institutions and their method of work. The document will be presented on the same day by Romano Prodi during […]

On 29 November, a few days after World Aids Day (1st December), representatives of 14 churches and church-run organizations from 10 western, central and eastern European countries met in Minsk, in Belarus, for a consultation organized jointly by the World Council of Churches and the Conference of the Churches of Europe. The meeting focused on […]