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religious publishing" "

France and Italy: a new thirst for spirituality. “Two sister cultures with common Christian and Latin roots in constant dialectical relation between integration and confrontation”: that’s how the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Paul Poupard, reads the almost parallel development of religious publishing in France and Italy; a link that will lead […]

economy" "

The latest round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ended with an apparent success at Doha, in Qatar. It’s now a question of seeing whether the new WTO rules will succeed in guaranteeing global development in a more balanced manner. To discuss the point, SirEurope met Gerhard Hueler , the Austrian director of […]

war and the media" "

President of the Foreign Press ‘Association in Italy, which represents some 500 journalists from all over the world in Rome, and correspondent of “Antena 3 Television”, the Spaniard Antonio Pelayo is convinced that the first victim of the war in Afghanistan is the truth; yet “information is a paramount right because on it is founded […]

In response to the modifications introduced by the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1997 in the field of judicial cooperation in civil suits, the member States have decided to transform into a Regulation the so-called “Brussels II Convention” of 28 May 1999, never ratified, relating to the harmonization of legislation in EU countries on the dissolution […]

A family “in the plural”, rather heterogeneous, but with some features shared in common between the “nordic” countries and the countries of the Mediterranean area. That’s the portrait of the family in Europe, as it emerges from the last Report of the CISF (International Centre of Studies on the Family) on the family in Italy, […]

“The Family is the future”. This was the theme of the international Symposium on the family held in Fribourg, in Switzerland, on 17 and 18 November. Organized by the Swiss Foundation of the Family (FSF), the Symposium tried to review the situation of the family and to make proposals for the solution of the main […]

Great Britain has the highest rate of divorces and second marriages in Europe. In 1981 there were 275,000 marriages in which husband and wife had not been previously married, 140,000 second marriages for one or both partners and 150,000 divorces. In 1997 first marriages totalled 190,000, second marriages remained at the level of 140,000, while […]

The Spanish government approved a new Plan of support to the family for the three-year period 2001/2004 on 8 November. This Plan derives its origin from the need to tackle the major changes that have taken place in Spanish society in recent years. In particular the following changes should be noted: the growing presence of […]

family" "

We are dedicating an enquiry to the situation of the family in Europe. We wish to examine how the main problems that affect the family are being debated in the various countries. We will begin with France where each year some 340,000 couples (in comparison with 220,000 in 1993) begin divorce proceedings. A new law […]

editoriale" "

Quando una città brucia alcuni stanno a guardare, altri sfidano le fiamme. Riprendendo questa immagine, dedicata loro da un “corrispondente di guerra” si può dire che i sette giornalisti europei uccisi in Afghanistan dall’inizio della guerra al terrorismo (l’australiano lavorava per una testata inglese), hanno raccolto il testimone lasciato dai vigili del fuoco di New […]