Maria Dolores Algora Weber" "Professor of contemporary history" "Università San Paolo-Ceu - Madrid" "" "

Spain

Little has changed in the Mediterranean since 12 July 2000 when the tiny island of Perejil was occupied by a small unit of the Moroccan gendarmerie. However, on closer inspection, it is possible to identity small details that are by no means of negligible importance for a regular observer of international relations. We refer to […]

Germany" "

The elections for the fifteenth legislature of the Bundestag, the federal parliament elected every four years, are due to be held in Germany on 22 September. The current majority is composed of the SPD, the social-democratic party, with 40,9% of the vote, allied with the Greens (6,7%). In opposition are the CDU/ CSU (or “Union”, […]

The Court of Justice of the European Community, with its seat in Luxembourg, has reaffirmed the importance of guaranteeing the protection of family life and free circulation also to the citizens of a non-EU state who are married to an EU citizen (sentence of the Court in suit C-459/99, “Mouvement contre le racisme, l’antisémitisme et […]

· EDUCATION – Tender for bids, preparatory and innovative operations 200 2/b, Programme “e-Learning” (adaptation of the EU’s education and training systems to the economy of knowledge and digital culture; media literacy and education in images; quality). Deadline for the presentation of bids: 30/9/2002. For further information, contact the European Commission, GD Education and Culture, […]

agenda" "

· Regulation (EC) no. 1346/2002 if the Council, of 25/7/2002, amending Regulation (EC) no. 2465/96 relating to the interruption of economic and financial relations between the European Community and Iraq (OGEC L 197/1, 26/7/2002);  · Decision of the EP, of the Council, of the Commission, of the Court of Justice, of the Court of Accounts, […]

The embrace between the Pope “tired and burdened by age”, but still young at heart, and the thousands of youngsters who came to Toronto for the 17th World Youth Day has succeeded once again in astonishing the media, repudiating all those who predicted that the WYD would be a flop. “Almost a million people participated […]

Preparing the Symposium on “Church and University in Europe” to be held in Rome from 24 to 27 July 2003: that will be the main objective of the meeting of national delegates of university apostolate and of the Group of coordination of the European Committee of university chaplains, scheduled to be held in Madrid from […]

" "subsidiarity

“Whatever institutional form Europe will acquire, this cannot fail to take account of the local autonomies that represent an important contribution to the construction of a European system that is truly democratic and close to citizens”. So said the mayor of Foggia, Paolo Agostinacchio , speaking in recent days at a meeting held in Rome […]

The “Draft Regulation of the Council modifying the statute of employees of the European Communities and the regime applicable to the other agents of the said Communities”, prepared by the European Commission under the responsibility of vice-president Neil Kinnock (cf. report on the previous page), does not convince those directly concerned, who have expressed numerous […]

institutions

The draft reform. The “bureaucratic machine” of the European Commission headed by Romano Prodi comprises 24 general directorates, 6 general services and 5 internal services with an overall workforce of over 20,000 personnel and a budget of 3.2 billion euros (the statutory personnel of the institutions total approximately 25,000, the budget of the Institutions amounts […]