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Ireland

The Irish have accepted the euro with enthusiasm, without letting themselves be intimidated by the difficulties of calculating of how many euro coins correspond to one pound and vice versa. The politicians were convinced that the citizens of the Irish Republic would be a good deal warier and await the deadline of the 9th February […]

foreign debt

The European Union should commit itself more to foreign debt relief and alter some of the criteria on which it is based: that’s the proposal of the Coordination of the Spanish NGOs for development. It has suggested to the Spanish government that it should assume a clearer position on the question within the European Union, […]

Milosevic" "

Some 278,000 people were killed (or disappeared) in Bosnia-Herzegovina from the outbreak of the war to 1st January 1995: that’s an average of 204 people per day. Over one million people, 28.4% of the population, were expelled from the country in various ways. Now Slobodan Milosevic is in the dock at the UNO Tribunal in […]

The inaugural session of the Convention on the future of Europe, under the presidency of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former President of the French Republic, will be held on 28 February 2002. The work will continue into 2003: “The Convention’s mandate – points out Bernard Seillier, senator for Aveyron, interviewed by Sir Europe – concerns, in […]

The first plenary session of the European Convention, established by the European Council at Laeken (14-15 December 2001) will take place in the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels on 28 February and will be followed by a further six plenary sessions up till the end of July. The presidium of the Convention, composed […]

the Convention" "

The Convention on the future of Europe is about to open. Its President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, recently presented the members and programme of work of the body given the task of drawing up proposals for the institutional reforms of the European Union. Attention will need to be paid to the suggestions that will be made […]

Orthodox Church

Continuing the dialogue of charity because “without ecumenical peace there will be neither evangelization nor common witness in Europe”: that is the way forward indicated by Father Traian Valdman , episcopal vicar of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Italy, to revive hope in the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Patriarchate of Moscow. We […]

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I cristiani dell’Europa assistono all’evolversi di una specie di “guerra fredda” tra il Vaticano ed il Patriarcato ortodosso di Mosca. L’elevazione delle amministrazioni apostoliche cattoliche in Russia al rango di diocesi ordinarie ha suscitato l’ira dei responsabili del Patriarcato. La visita del card. Walter Kasper, presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per l’Unità dei Cristiani, a Mosca […]

Sentenza della Corte nella causa C-35/99, 19 febbraio 2002. Questione pregiudiziale posta dal pretore di Pinerolo (Italia) per il caso Arduino. Le tariffe obbligatorie degli onorari degli avvocati italiani non sono in contrasto con le disposizioni del trattato in materia di concorrenza. Il procedimento italiano che consiste nell’approvazione, da parte del governo, di un progetto, […]

· INQUINAMENTO MARINO – Invito a presentare proposte nelsettore della cooperazione comunitaria contro l’inquinamento marino dovuto a cause accidentali o intenzionali – Termine ultimo per la presentazione delle proposte: 27/3/2002. Per ulteriori informazioni, contattare: Commissione Europea, DG Ambiente, DG ENV B.4 Protezione civile e incidenti ambientali, 200 Rue de la Loi, B-1049 Bruxelles. Fax: 00322.2990314, […]