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Numbers, diagrams and tables to ‘photograph’ the situation of education in the industrialized world: the recently published 2002 OECD report – “Education at a glance” – provides just such a snapshot. It is full of the necessary data (referring to the years 2001-2002) for reliable comparisons between countries and educational traditions. We take this report […]

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“Europe has all the characteristics to enable it to propose itself as a pilot-continent for globalization on a human scale that may give a voice to all the varied expressions of peoples and civil society”. Convinced of this is Luigino Bruni , professor of political economy at the State University of Milan-Bicocca, who will be […]

Turkey is the first country with a Moslem majority to have requested EU membership. Let’s retrace the fundamental stages in this process. 1964: the European Economic Community gives the go-ahead to the accord of association that enters into force on 1st December of the same year. 18 September 1980: Turkey and the European Community resume […]

During the first half of 2003 the European Union will be led by the presidency of Greece. If the European Council of Copenhagen on 12/13 December lays down the criteria for the negotiation of Turkey’s membership of the EU, it will thus be Greece that will have to manage the first phase of this negotiation […]

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With 34.40 percent of the votes, the neo-Islamic party “Justice and Development” (AKP), led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won the elections in Turkey on 3 November. It was an electoral ballot that renewed 90 percent of the whole Turkish Parliament, composed of 550 seats, and now divided between only two parties: the AKP with 363 […]

· MEDIA – MEDIA PLUS – Development, Distribution and Promotion (2001-2005) – Implementation of the programme for sustainable development, distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works – Call to present bids 74/2002 – “support for the promotion of and access to the market in the sector of audiovisual festivals”. Deadlines for the presentation of bids: […]

The Commissions of the European Parliament are meeting in Brussels from 11 to 14 November. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Decision to mobilize the Solidarity Fund for the victims of natural disasters (Budgetary Commission, rapporteur: Colom i Naval); · Campaign against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the developing countries: research […]

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In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Draft regulation of the Council containing the financial regulation for the 9th European Development Fund (OGEC C 262/E/533, 29/10/2002); · Draft regulation of the EP and the Council establishing specific regulations for the organization of official controls […]

“Turkey: absolute majority for the moderate Islamists”. That’s the front-page headline of Le Monde (5/11), dedicated to the victory of the AKP, the neo-islamic “Justice and Development” party in the recent elections in Turkey. The French daily speaks of a “triumph” and dedicates its editorial to what it calls the “ Turkish challenge”. “An islamic […]

He returned to St John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied and later taught. But this time the university welcomed him not as a student but as the successor of George Carey and as the new archbishop of Canterbury. He’s Rowan Williams, aged 52, Welshman, currently the much-loved bishop of the diocese of Monmouth, designated by […]