ENLARGEMENT (4)

The twelve new members

SirEurope’s journey through the twelve new countries of EU enlargement continues (cf. 19, 23 and 34/2008). This time our destination is the Maltese archipelago: with its 400,000 inhabitants, divided between the four main islands covering an overall area of some 316 sq. km, it is the smallest and least populated State in the European Union. […]

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TURKEY - EU

The hope of the Kurds

His is a well-known face in the Kurdish community present in Europe, but also among the Kurds living in Turkey (some 25% of the total population), in Iran, Iraq and Syria. The journalist Huseyin Elmali is the anchorman of the programme “De l’Europe” broadcast on Roj TV, the Brussels-based satellite television channel of Kurdistan, founded […]

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THE BALKANS

May memory live

The corpses found in hidden cemeteries dating back to World War II and to the post-war period have a right to burial and funeral service. The request was made by the Commissions for Justice and Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia in a joint communiqué issued May 13th and signed rby Msgr. Vlado Košiæ (Croatia), […]

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HUNGARY

A Church put to the test

A Church which is strongly committed in its mission, in youth formation and in assisting the sick and the poor within an “old” and extremely secularized society. However, this Church is witnessing a “conscience awakening” and a “renewed interest on the part of the youth”. With these words, His Eminence Cardinal Péter Erdö, archbishop of […]

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Portugal, Germany, Ireland

Portugal: a petition against divorce legislation In relation to upcoming parliamentary debate, the Family Forum launched a public petition on Citizenship – Families -Marriage to protest against the draft-bill on divorce submitted by the Socialist Party. The document opposes a legislative document aimed at introducing “the supremacy of statism and penal code as the solution […]

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FRONT PAGE

In the year of dialogue…

Why is it that for some time already, Italy’s collective imagination has been viewing Romanians as the expression of danger? Why is it that since its EU adhesion less than 17 months ago, Romania is viewed by many as a crime-exporting factory, despite its thousand-year-old history and traditions, the melting-pot of peoples and cultures? Why […]

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FUCI: DOMANI INCONTRO CON IL PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA

Domani mattina il presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano riceverà in udienza privata al Quirinale i membri della presidenza nazionale della Fuci (Federazione universitaria cattolica italiana). "Siamo felici ed emozionati per questo incontro in occasione del quale si rinnoverà la lunga e bella tradizione delle udienze che i Presidenti della Repubblica hanno sempre concesso alla nostra […]

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VIOLENZA SUI MINORI: MEDICI CATTOLICI, UN CONVEGNO A MILANO

"Quotidianamente telegiornali e carta stampata riportano notizie dall’Italia e dal mondo di violenze sui minori, orrori che avvengono il più delle volte all’interno delle mura domestiche": per la sezione milanese dell’Amci (Associazione medici cattolici italiani), si tratta di un problema "che scuote le coscienze" e che occorre "approfondire". Di qui il convegno "La violenza sui […]

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ROMANIES: SPIDLA (EU COMMISSION), "RESPECT OF RIGHTS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION ALL OVER THE EU"

"We must do all we can to make the Romany populations fit in" so as to "prevent them being pushed out of our societies": Vladimir Spidla, EU Commissioner for social affairs, opened in Strasbourg today the urgent debate on the situation of the Romanies in Italy and Europe, with about thirty speeches given. Spidla recalled […]

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ROM: SPIDLA (COMMISSIONE), "RISPETTO DEI DIRITTI E INTEGRAZIONE IN TUTTA L’UE"” “” ” ” “

"Bisogna far di tutto per integrare le popolazioni rom" per "evitare che siano spinte ai margini delle nostre società": Vladimir Spidla, commissario Ue agli affari sociali, ha aperto oggi a Strasburgo il dibattito d’urgenza sulla situazione dei rom in Italia e in Europa, durante il quale si sono registrati una trentina di interventi. Spidla ha […]

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