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In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: Recommendation of the Council, of 15/4/2002, relating to the appointment of the vice-chairman of the executive committee of the European Central Bank (OGEC L 101/17, 17/4/2002).

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An emergency meeting of EU Foreign Ministers was held in Luxembourg on Monday, 14 April to discuss the situation in the Middle East. But the ministers ended their meeting without taking any concrete decisions. In spite of the pressure of some member states (in particular Belgium) and of the European Parliament for the immediate convocation […]

The Middle Eastern question continues to monopolize the attention of the main European dailies. “The right to know”: that’s the title of the editorial in Le Monde (16/4), in which the paper comments on the massacre of Jenin, and the discordant versions of what happened there, furnished by the two sides in the conflict: “This […]

In spite of the hike in the cost of petrol and the recent statements of the European Central Bank according to which inflation in Euroland is higher than had been forecast, the Ministers of the Economy of the countries participating in the Euro area confirmed the estimates of the Executive on increased economic growth in […]

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In spite of the fact that the still not completely defined procedural questions are still occupying a large part of the work of the Secretariat and of the members themselves, the discussion within the Convention on the future of Europe is beginning to tackle the issues that will form the core of the final document […]

“We hope that it may be useful for the formation of an opinion and for the formulation of guidelines on the question of euthanasia”: so said Cardinal Adrian Simonis, president of the Dutch Bishops’ Conference, in presenting the English edition of the collection of documents, pastoral letters, correspondence, press releases, official statements and declarations on […]

“The central theme of the 24th spring plenary Session of the Croatian Episcopal Conference was the question of the pastoral guidelines for the Church in Croatia at the beginning of the new millennium“. This was reported by the archbishop of Rijeka, Msgr. Ivan Devcic, at a press conference on the conclusion of the assembly which […]

“Pre-Implant Diagnosis (Pid) and research on embryonal stem cells”: these are the main focal points of “Pro-life week 2002”, opened at Erfurt, in Thuringia, in the former DDR on 13 April. This is the 12th annual pro-life week in Germany, promoted by the German Episcopal Conference and the Federation of the Evangelic Churches in Germany. […]

Formation in terms of the art and cultural properties of the Church will be at the centre of the 10th National Day for ecclesiastical cultural properties, promoted in Rome on 18 April by the national Council for ecclesiastical cultural properties and the Office for ecclesiastical cultural properties of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI). The objectives […]

In recent days, the Department for external relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow issued a document regarding the white paper on “governance” published by the European Commission last June. “The Russian Orthodox Church – says the statement – is very interested in cooperation with the European Union but its participation must not be limited to […]