Austria, Germania, Svizzera

Austria: Europei di calcioUn Sms con “spunti di riflessione” durante Euro 08: questa l’iniziativa della Chiesa cattolica austriaca in occasione dei campionati europei di calcio inaugurati il 7 giugno. Iscrivendosi gratuitamente online nel sito www.kirche08.at, è possibile ricevere ogni giorno, per tutta la durata dei campionati, un SMS con passi della Bibbia, affermazioni di pontefici, […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Il mare che unisce

La storia delle relazioni euromediterranee equivale per molti aspetti alla storia delle occasioni mancate. Nel 1995, anno di nascita del cosiddetto Processo di Barcellona “Euromed”, le ambizioni e le aspettative da esso generate erano molteplici e di grande respiro politico, economico e culturale: la nuova era di cooperazione tra l’Unione europea e i dodici Paesi […]

di Eleni IniotakiGrecia

EU

What role in the world?

The European Union needs an unambiguous, strong and efficient foreign policy. This was stated last week by the 27 of the Parliament, meeting at a plenary session in Brussels June 4 and 5. They also pointed out the excessive degree of inconsistencies and divisions between member States and their common institutions. During this assembly, the […]

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HENRY MANNING

Caroline’s book

“In this booklet my dearest wife used to write her prayers and her meditations…All the good deeds I could have done, all the goodness in me, I owe it to her”. With these words, written at the twighlight of his life, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) remembered Caroline Sargent, the young woman with whom he […]

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YOUTH AND MEDIA

Nomads and realists

“The evolution of youth media consumption in Italy and in Europe”: that’s the title of the 7th Report on Communication of CENSIS, the Italian socio-economic research institute, and of UCSI, the Catholic Union of the Italian Press, presented in Rome on 9 June. 5000 youth between the ages of 14 and 29 in Italy, France, […]

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TRAFFICKING IN EUROPE

Liberating enslaved women

“The trafficking of women is one of the tragedies of our time. We appeal to heads of state and of government, to international organizations, and to all men of good will for a global commitment to eliminate a scourge and a shame of humanity”. That’s the appeal launched at the end of the International Congress […]

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CCEE

The wise reason

“The crisis of modernity is not synonymous with the decline of philosophy. Philosophy, indeed, must commit itself to a new course of research, to understand the real nature of this crisis and to identify new prospects towards which to direct itself”. For modernity, if “rightly understood”, reveals an “anthropological question”, which is the central theme […]

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CCEE

The Europe of Persons

After 13 years of dedication to service of the Church in Europe “with loyalty and without reservations” as Secretary General of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) the Pope has elected Msgr. Aldo Giordano to become Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the organism that unites 47 […]

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Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Austria: Europe’s football championship, the Church wins the ballA text message “with food for thought” during Euro 08. It’s the initiative of Austria’s Catholic Church on the occasion of Europe’s football championship inaugurated on June 7. With free on-line registration on the website www.kirche08.at, it’s possible to receive each day, for the entire duration of […]

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FRONT PAGE

The sea of contacts

The history of Euro-Mediterranean relations under many aspects resembles the history of missed opportunities. In 1995, the year when the so-called ‘Euromed’ Barcellona Process was created, a number of ambitions and expectations were generated which had broad political, economic and cultural bearing. The new era of cooperation between the European Union and the twelve Countries […]

di Eleni Iniotaki Greece