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La Santa Sede ha provveduto ad elevare allo status di diocesi le 4 amministrazioni apostoliche esistenti finora nel territorio della Federazione Russa ed alla relativa creazione di un’unica Provincia ecclesiastica. Lo ha annunciato il direttore della sala stampa della Santa Sede, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, spiegando in una nota diffusa l’11 febbraio che con il provvedimento preso […]

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In the age of the globalization of markets and the hegemony of the neoliberal theory, the gulf between rich and poor has further widened over these last few years. Global inequality has in fact grown very rapidly: at least by 5% according to the most recent figures published by the World Bank’s “Economic Journal” (January […]

· ENVIRONMENT – Invitation to present proposals concerning the EC programme of cooperation for the sustainable development of the urban environment. Deadline for the presentation of proposals: 27/3/2002. For further information, please contact: European Commission, GD Environment, Mr. C. Rouam, Department Head, GD ENV B.3. Territorial dimension (BU5, 4/14), B-1049 Bruxelles. Fax: 00322/2969561, or consult […]

The EP met in plenary session in Strasbourg from Monday 4 to Thursday 7 February. The main points on the agenda were as follows: · Drug trafficking (rapporteur: Oostlander); · European guarantor of data protection (rapporteur: Paciotti); · Annual Report of the European Investment Bank (rapporteur: Schmidt); · Declaration by the Senior Representative of PESC, […]

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In the course of last week, the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Regulation (EC) no. 178/2002 of the EP and of the Council, of 28/1/2002, that lays down the general principles and requisites for food legislation, establishes the European Authority for food safety and fixes procedures in the field […]

New York and Porto Alegre: the two simultaneous world forums re-ignited the debate in the main international dailies on the relation between economy and globalization. La Croix of 4/2 dedicated a whole page to the two “summits”: “The struggle against poverty in the southern hemisphere – says a résumé of the article signed by Pierre […]

The Commissioner for education and culture, the Luxembourger Vivian Reding, outlined to the European Parliament the priorities of his General Directorate for 2002. In the field of education, one objective is the bureaucratic simplification of the “Socrates” Programme, to facilitate and encourage exchanges of students and teachers. Reding announced that the millionth “Erasmus” study grant […]

“Fair and balanced”: these were the words with which Commissioner Günter Verheugen defined the proposals recently presented by the Commission in terms of financing EU enlargement, in particular as regards common agricultural policy and regional aid. For Romano Prodi and for the Commissioners Verheugen (enlargement), Fischler (agriculture) and Schreyer (budget) the bottom line consists, on […]

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“The Churches are interested in contributing to the work of the Convention for the reform of the European institutions”. So said the representatives of the Christian Churches on recently meeting, in Madrid, Spain’s Secretary of State for European affairs, Ramón de Miguel, and representatives of the Spanish presidency of the EU, which will remain in […]

“To propose to the Italian ecclesial community an organic synthesis of the contents and perspectives of pastoral commitment in the field of social communications”: this is the main objective of the “Directory on social communication in the mission of the Italian Church”; the main lines of the document, which represents one of the main contributions […]