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European Parliament" "

The special session of the European Parliament dedicated to enlargement was held in Strasbourg from 18 to 20 November, in the presence of 199 MPs from the candidate countries and with conspicuous absences among the ranks of MEPs. Turkey was not present, because, for reasons of time, it was unable to appoint twelve representatives from […]

NATO summit" "

At its summit in Prague on 21 and 22 November, NATO is to propose a new enlargement of its organization to seven of the ten countries that have long been participating in the action plan for membership. The new members are likely to be: Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia and Slovakia. The Atlantic Alliance […]

"Prestige" disaster" "

The oil tanker “Prestige” sank off the Spanish coast of Galicia on Tuesday, 19 November, polluting almost 300 kilometres of coastline with some 70,000 tons of crude oil and causing untold damage to the region’s economy. Apart from the environmental disaster and the social repercussions on the local populations, the question still remains open of […]

editorial" "

Europe was constructed in the 9th century, with the help of Latin and the Bible; St. Francis too learnt to read and write with the help of the Psalms. So the link between the Bible and the Christian identity of Europe has been essential ever since the dawn of its history. Today, too, it is […]

· COMBATING VIOLENCE – Programme “DAPHNE” 2000-2003 – Preventive measures aimed at combating violence against children, adolescents and women – Tender for bids 2003. Deadline for the presentation of proposals: 10/2/2003. For further information, contact the European Commission, GD Justice and Internal Affairs, Fax 00322.299.6711, E-mail isabelle.touwaide@cec.eu.int, or consult the wesite: http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/project/daphne/en/index.htm (OGEC C 280/27, […]

The Commissions of the European Parliament will meet in Brussels from 25 to 28 November 2002. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Work group on human rights: priority of human rights for the European initiative for democracy and human rights 9EIDHR) – Budget for 2003 (Commission for foreign affairs); · Regional […]

agenda" "

In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Regulation (EC) no. 2012/2002 of the Council, of 11/11/2002, which establishes the Solidarity Fund of the European Union (OGEC L 311/3, 14/11/2002); · Decision of the Commission, of 29/10/2002, which approves the plan of distribution between member […]

The sending of UN observers to Iraq is variously commented on by the German press. In the Frankfurter Rundschau of 16/11, Ro lf Paasch writes: “ The cynical American policy makes it difficult for truly democratic Iraqis to have any trust in the superpower. More than once they have been betrayed and sold down the […]

150 different peals of bells, of every variety, can now be heard on the site www.campaners.com, a venture born in Valencia which transmits on line, for the first time, the sounds of bells and clocks of 150 churches in the area. The sounds are available in MP3 format and are almost all of Valencian origin, […]

The German Catholic press agency KNA celebrated its 50th anniversary on 19 November. The four hundred guests invited to the celebration listened to the messages of congratulations sent by the ecclesiastical authorities and by the protagonists of social and political life, and of the mass media. Evaluating positively “the huge range of information provided” by […]