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402 seggi al partito di destra “Unione per la maggioranza presidenziale “, solo 175 seggi, invece, alla sinistra. La Francia ha scelto così la sua Assemblea nazionale dove è assente il Fronte Nazionale di Jean Marie Le Pen, dopo il 18 % circa raggiunto durante il primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali, il 21 aprile. Risultati che, […]

regno unito

Un altro disastro finanziario, simile ai cattivi investimenti nel mercato immobiliare negli anni ’80, ha colpito la “Chiesa di Inghilterra”. I “Church Commissioners”, la commissione di 33 membri alla quale è affidato il patrimonio finanziario della Chiesa di Stato inglese, ha assistito impotente alla perdita di 80 milioni di sterline (120 milioni di euro), dovuto […]

polonia

“La reintegrazione politica ed economica nel continente europeo dopo mezzo secolo di forzata divisione rappresenta per la Polonia un’opportunità storica; se gestita correttamente, l’espansione della UE rafforzerà sia gli attuali Paesi membri, sia quelli dell’Europa centrale ed orientale”. Ne è convinta la vicepresidente della Banca europea per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz , […]

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Europe – the mythical Europa – was in origin a woman: mythology provides us with eloquent images of the birth of Europe, a birth profoundly marked by a feminine identity ever since the beginning. The current policies being implemented ought never to lose sight of this identity that confers on the European Union a quite […]

“Chirac heading towards an absolute majority”: that’s the front-page headline with which Le Monde (11/6) salutes the victory of the right in the first round of the French legislative elections which have monopolized the attention of the French dailies. The success of the right, says the article , “is an endorsement of the strategy of […]

On 16 June, at a ceremony in Salzburg Cathedral, Josef Roetzer will receive from Bishop Klaus Küng of Feldkirch, president of the Austrian Episcopal Commission for the pastoral care of the family, the pontifical award of the Order of Gregory the Great, instituted by Gregory XVI in 1831 and then revised and reconfirmed by St. […]

To be “authentically missionary” the parish today must avert the risk of being reduced to a “ghetto of devotees” or a “self service of religious needs”. So says Msgr. Walther Ruspi, head of the catechetical Office of the Italian Episcopal Conference, in the course of the national Meeting of the directors of the diocesan catechetical […]

The executive Committee of the Spanish Episcopal Conference met in Madrid in recent days and issued a communiqué on 6 June to respond to the controversy that erupted following the pastoral letter disseminated by the Basque bishops (cf. SirEurope 22/2002). In its press release the Episcopal Conference notes that the Basque bishops “have expressed a […]

The 30th meeting of the general secretaries of the European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE) will be held in Istanbul in Turkey from 13 to 17 June. “In Turkey – says a communiqué put out by the CCEE –, a country with an Islamic majority that is knocking at the doors of Europe, the main issues on […]

The third Day of Jewish Culture will be celebrated in 22 countries of Europe on Sunday 16 June. Founded in France in 1996 with the slogan “Open Doors”, the initiative is aimed at familiarizing the public with the most varied aspects of Jewish culture, enabling everyone, even those who have never had any contacts at […]