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Overall, at the EU level, there are 7 programmes and 12 actions in which young people can participate directly. In spite of the non-existence of a specific EU policy for youth, a series of provisions do tackle the problems of young people within various areas of competence of the Union. We list the most significant […]

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Palm Sunday, 24 March, is, as it is every year, an occasion to celebrate Youth Day in each diocese. In preparation for this important Day, the Pope is meeting the youth of the diocese of Rome this afternoon, 21 March. The youth of the whole world are thus symbolically taking the road towards the 17th […]

“Young people wish to live with intensity” was the headline of a special report in the French daily La Croix of 8 February, dedicated in large part to the pilgrimage on foot of French university students from Paris to Chartres on the vigil of Palm Sunday, now also being celebrated as national youth day. This […]

“Young people wish to live with intensity” was the headline of a special report in the French daily La Croix of 8 February, dedicated in large part to the pilgrimage on foot of French university students from Paris to Chartres on the vigil of Palm Sunday, now also being celebrated as national youth day. This […]

· TRADE IN HUMAN BEINGS / SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN – Programme “STOP II” – Annual programme of work and conditions of participation for 2002. Deadline for the presentation of proposals: 30/4/2002. For further information, contact the European Commission, GD Justice and Internal Affairs, Fax: 00322.2950174, E-mail: JAI-STOP@cec.eu.int, or consult the Internet site http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/jai/prog_en.htm (OGEC […]

The Commissions of the EP are due to meet in Brussels from 25 to 29 March 2002. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Social policy – draft joint report on social inclusion (Commission of Social Affairs and Commission of Culture, rapporteur: Alyssandrakis); · Report on the state of negotiations on EU […]

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In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Resolution of the Council of 1/3/2002 on the protection of consumers, in particular of the young, through the labelling of some videogames and computer games by age groups (OGEC 65/2, 14/3/2002); · Common action of the Council, […]

“ At Monterrey, the delegates wish to speak about the poor but not see them“. That’s the title of an editorial signed by Bebette Stern that appeared on the front page of the French daily Le Monde ( 19/3). Stern speaks of the UN Conference on the funding of development that opened in the Mexican […]

The cloister garden of the French abbey of Fontevraud, the largest monastic complex in Western Europe, will be reopened on Sunday, 24 March, on the inauguration of the Festival of Holy Week, which will have as its theme this year “The Pasch in the churches of the East”. Numerous events have been promoted by the […]

The protection of children and questions of an ecumenical nature were on the agenda of the Assembly of the bishops of North Europe, held in Copenhagen from 9 to 13 March. The bishops of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland assembled under the presidency of the bishop of Oslo, Gerhard Schwenzer. The other issues discussed […]