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“Caritas Europe is regarding with great concern the massive assault by Israeli forces on Palestinian towns and refugee camps in the West Bank and in the Gaza strip”, says a communiqué issued by Caritas Europe in recent days. The press release also condemns “inreservedly the attacks against Israeli civilians” and urges the international community to […]

At a press conference in Berlin on 5 April, German Caritas presented its new online counselling service for pregnant women (www.caritas.de). Billed as an “important link in the network of aid and assistance offered by the Catholic Church”, it is a service that has the advantage of “exploiting young people’s familiarity with the electronic media”, […]

With a rate of unemployment of 5.1% and the number of unemployed regularly falling year after year (reduced by 5,000 last year), the UK seems to enjoy an enviable position. But Britain’s labour market, reformed on the US model during Mrs Thatcher’s years as prime minister, has characteristics very different from those of other European […]

· EU/LATIN AMERICA – Invitation to present proposals for the “ALAN” Programme of high-level scholarships, for activities realized in Europe and in Latin America. Deadline for the presentation of bids: 21/6/2002. for further information, contact the European Commission at the e-mail address: maria-esmeralda.almeida-teixeira@cec.eu.int, or consult the website http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm (GUCE C 79/17, 3/4/2002); · ECONOMIC, MONETARY […]

The next plenary session of the Convention for the future of Europe will be held in Brussels on 15 and 16 April. The Presidium of the Convention has sent the titular and substitute members a memorandum (CONV 16/02) containing a list of points on which the debate should be focused. The main issue is the […]

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The Commissions of the EP are due to meet in Brussels from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 April 2002. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Protection of salaried workers: insolvency of the employer (amendment of Directive 80/987/EEC), (Commission for employment and social affairs, rapporteur: Bouwman); · Employment policy: European strategy for […]

The Middle East remains at the centre of the attention of the main European dailies. “War and diplomacy” is the main headline of the Herald Tribune (10/4), which reports on the mission of American Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Middle East. “Ariel Sharon speaks of peace and wages war”, is the headline carried […]

A targeted project to launch twinning arrangements between hospitals in Italy, France, Spain and Luxembourg and those in the developing countries most suffering from the Aids epidemic, where in some cases HIV infection affects over 30% of the population: that’s the objective of the “international network of hospital therapeutic solidarity against Aids”, a programme of […]

In the course of the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in April, the European Mediator Jacob Söderman presented his report for 2001, a document aimed at reviewing the cases of maladministration that European citizens have suffered in their relations with EU institutions. Söderman declared his lack of conviction about the real application, […]

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The European Parliament, in its session in Strasbourg on 10 April, approved, with 269 votes in favour, 208 against and 22 abstentions, a resolution calling for the suspension of the accord of association between the European Union and Israel. The EP also severely condemned the Palestinian terrorism and called for an embargo on arms sales […]