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There are no “justifications that may prevent transsexuals from enjoying the right to marry”. With two sentences (nos. 366 and 367 of 11 July 2002) the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg established in recent days that transsexuals too have the right to marry. The Court accepted the appeals presented against the United Kingdom […]

· COOPERATION – Invitation to present proposals for the co-financing, in 2002 and 2003, of actions of decentralised cooperation in the developing countries. Deadline for the presentation of bids: 28/10/2002. For further information, contact the European Commission, Office of cooperation Europeaid, e-mail Europeaid-cdc@cec.eu.int, or consult the Internet site of the European Commission http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm (OGEC C […]

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In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Decision no. 1247/2002/CE of the EP, of the Council and of the Commission, of 1/7/2002, relating to the status and general condition for the exercise of the functions of European guarantor of data protection (OGEC L 183/1, […]

“The euro overtakes the dollar, growth below 3%”. That’s the front-page headline of Le Monde (17/7), which thus hails the euro’s “overtaking” of the American currency, against a general background of the “collapse” of stock exchanges throughout the world. Inside the paper, the front-page story is analyzed at length: “The weakening of the dollar vis-à-vis […]

The text of the sixth framework programme for technological research and development, approved by the Council at the beginning of June, provides for the possibility of the EU financing research projects on stem cells if they conform to the requisite of ‘patentability’ and if the final objective is to improve human health. The governments of […]

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To the surprise even of its own staff, the European Commission has grasped the occasion of the publication of the mid-tern review of the EU’s agricultural regime, adopted by the Berlin summit in 1999 and endorsed by Agenda 2000, to present a Communication which calls for a sweeping reform of the CAP, the common agricultural […]

An appeal to holidaymarkers not to succumb to the passion for speeding and not to drink alcohol before driving has been made by Bishop Georges Gilson of Sens-Auxerre (France). Speed and alcohol – he says – are the main causes of “often fatal road accidents” and are therefore “a sin against oneself and against others”. […]

From now on it will be more difficult to steal with impunity from churches. Thanks to an agreement between the National Office for ecclesiastical cultural properties of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) and the Command of the Carabinieri for the safeguard of the artistic heritage, more than 150,000 catalogue entries of the databank of the […]

“The representation” of the “individual cases has deeply disturbed me”. “In particular, I am saddened by the suffering caused to the victims”. That’s how Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Episcopal Conference and bishop of Mainz, responded in recent days to an article published in the weekly magazine “Der Spiegel” on paedophilia and priests. […]

A joint declaration to combat terrorism and violence and progress together in the pursuit of peace: the text is the initiative of the Commission of Jewish-Catholic dialogue in Switzerland. “We are very disturbed – says the joint communiqué – by the growing number of violent terrorist attacks of recent months which have occurred just about […]