Redazione

AUSTRIA

Il numero di poveri accertati in Austria è raddoppiato dal 2005: questo il dato saliente emerso dal Rapporto sociale 2011-2012 presentato il 19 novembre dal ministro austriaco per il sociale Rudolf Hundstorfer. Una tendenza “preoccupante” e “drammatica”, secondo il presidente della Caritas austriaca Franz Küberl, soprattutto per quanto riguarda i salari e la distribuzione del […]

UE-SLOVACCHIA

C’è un equivoco di fondo nella vicenda che vede su due fronti opposti la Commissione europea e la Banca centrale slovacca a proposito della moneta commemorativa per il giubileo dei 1.150 anni della predicazione di Cirillo e Metodio, bizantini, evangelizzatori dei popoli slavi, figure chiave della storia e del cristianesimo del vecchio continente, proclamati co-patroni […]

CCEE

"The operative word is something more than social inclusion, because working with and for migrants in Europe mainly involves a process of "communion", which requires a "change" of attitude and perspective "in those migrants who get into a country and in those people who receive them". Card. Josip Bozaniæ, archbishop of Zagreb, outlined the conclusions […]

DIALOGUE

"Respect for the other in his specificity, objective mutual knowledge of the religious tradition of others, especially through education; cooperation to ensure that the pilgrimage towards the truth is accomplished in freedom and serenity". For Card. Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, this is what is asked of believers who want […]

EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP

Building bridges, making projects. This is the spirit that led to the establishment of the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian cities in Ancona, in 1999. The Forum brings together coastal cities of seven Countries bordering on the Adriatic-Ionian basin: Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece. From their viewpoint sea does not […]

Commission: Economic and monetary union "We must move forward decisively to strengthen the architecture in the financial, fiscal, economic and political domains. That is what the Blueprint on a Deep and Genuine EMU seeks to achieve". On November 28 EU Commission president José Manuel Barroso illustrated the contents of the project for an economic and […]

UKRAINE

Ukraine commemorated the Holodomor Memorial Day on 24 November, remembering the victims of a great famine of 1932-1933. This year’s commemoration had a special significance – it’s been 80 years since the beginning of a man-made famine during which millions of people died of starvation as a result of actions and policies of the Soviet […]

EU-SLOVAKIA

There is a basic misunderstanding between the European Commission and the National Bank of Slovakia about the commemoration coin of the 1150th anniversary of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. The two Byzantine Saints, who evangelized the Slavic peoples, and played a meaningful role in the old Continent history and in Christianity, proclaimed co-patrons saints of Europe […]

AUSTRIA

According to the 2011-2012 Social Report, presented on November 19 by Austrian Welfare Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer, the ascertained number of poor people in Austria has doubled since 2005. It’s a "worrying" and "dramatic" trend, said the president of Austrian Caritas Franz Küberl, especially as relates to salaries and wealth distribution, although "Austria’s welfare state has […]

FRANCE

One of the sessions of the Social Weeks of France (Paris, November 23-25) titled "Men and women. The new matter at stake", focused on the "Men and Women in the Church". The debate started off from the question: "In an institution where the hierarchy is all male, what recognition can be given to the increasing […]