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The President of the “Group for the Europe of democracies and differences of the European Parliament, as well as member of the Convention, the Danish Jens-Peter Bonde, put out a communiqué in recent days in which he states that “ a confidential document of the Secretariat of the Convention traces the guidelines of a European […]

The annnual congress of the “Tafeln”, or “tables”, the equivalent of what is known in the USA and elsewhere as “food banks”, ended in Frankfurt on 16 June. Under the title “May everyone give what he can”, it was an occasion to draw up a balance sheet of the activity of the organization that over […]

“Invent new forms of solidarity”: that’s the invitation addressed to believers by Msgr. Benito Cocchi, president of Italian Caritas, on opening the 28th National Meeting of the 223 diocesan Caritas associations. Under the title “Along the roads of daily life”, the meeting was held in recent days at Bellaria (Rimini) and attended by over 600 […]

The Spanish Catholic worker movement, regrouped under the acronyms HOAC and JOC, has given its support to the general strike called for 20 June to protest against the reform of the labour market being implemented by the government of José Maria Aznar. The reform provides, inter alia, for the reduction of unemployment benefits, measures to […]

402 seats to the party of the right “Union for the presidential majority”, only 175 seats to the left: such, in brief, was the result of the elections to France’s National Assembly, from which the far-right National Front of Jean Marie Le Pen is excluded, after the 18 % share of the vote it reached […]

United Kingdom

Another financial disaster, similar to the bad investments in the property market in the 1980s, has struck the Church of England. The Church Commissioners, the commission of 33 members to which is entrusted the financial assets of the English State Church, had to stand by impotently as 80 million pounds (120 million euros) was wiped […]

Poland

“The political and economic reintegration of the European continent after half a century of forced division represents an historic opportunity for Poland; if managed correctly, the expansion of the EU will reinforce both the current member states, and those of central and eastern Europe”. Convinced of this is the vice-president of the European Bank for […]

Serbia

For Central and Eastern Europe the emergency is represented “by the impoverishment of daily life” which has historical roots but which has still not found a proper solution today. How can it be overcome? We discussed the matter with Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar of Belgrade (Serbia), visiting Bellaria (Rimini) in recent day to participate in the […]

Czech Republic

Confirmation of the Social-Democratic party of Vladimir Spidla (30.2% of the vote) and strong recovery of the former Communists (18.5%): these are the main results of the parliamentary elections held in the Czech Republic on 14 and 15 June. Absenteeism was massive: only 58% of the electorate bothered to vote. Spidla then received from President […]

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“Un cantiere europeo di informazione religiosa”: l’immagine riassume, nel bilancio del primo anno di attività, la valutazione su SirEuropa (settimanale, tre lingue su Internet) negli incontri dei segretari generali e dei portovace delle conferenze episcopali europee tenutisi nei giorni scorsi rispettivamente a Istanbul e presso Lubiana. Sono passati dodici mesi dalla presentazione del progetto a […]