Germania, Slovacchia, Inghilterra

Germania: la vita non è una merce da importareCon un voto trasversale, il Bundestag tedesco ha modificato l’11 aprile la “Stichtagsregelung” (regola della scadenza relativa all’importazione delle cellule staminali embrionali): d’ora in poi sarà possibile importare cellule staminali embrionali originate anche dopo la scadenza del 2002 e fino al 1° maggio 2007. Critiche unanimi sono […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Accesso al dramma?

Con 102 voti a favore e 69 contrari, il 16 aprile l’Assemblea parlamentare del Consiglio d’Europa (Apce) ha adottato la risoluzione 1607/2008 su “Accesso a un aborto senza rischi e legale in Europa” (servizio in questo numero di SIR Europa). Il commento del teologo italiano Marco Doldi.L’aborto resta una questione della donna. Questa è l’impressione […]

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EUROPEAN MEDIATOR

For citizens’ rights

“Good administration requires much more than merely refraining from illicit conduct. Officials should put themselves to the service of citizens and guarantee appropriate treatment in the full respect of their rights”. Nikiforos Diamandouros, European Mediator, on April 15 presented his “2007 Annual Report” which synthesizes cases of poor administration by Community institutions along with the […]

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Steps to be taken

Sixty years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “in the world there are still too many flagrant violations of fundamental rights. A number of injustices continue troubling consciences and even in democratic Countries, considered the upholders of human rights, current situation isn’t optimum”. These words by Silvio Marcus-Helmons, Emeritus professor at the Catholic university […]

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EU-IRAQ

Communities to be protected

“I can’t say Iraq is a stable country, but, compared with one and a half years ago, we have seen significant progress”. It was said by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, in Brussels, during a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the European Parliament and the EP delegation for relations with Iraq, […]

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

Not a right, a problem

Decriminalizing abortion in those States where it is still unlawful so as to “ensure the implementation of the right to abortion”; “respecting women’s free choice” overcoming those factual or law-enforced restrictions limiting access to abortion without risks. These were some of the crucial points of the Resolution 1607/2008 adopted with majority-vote on April 16 by […]

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MEDIA AND CHURCH

The culture of the Web

The meeting of the Executive Committee of the CEEM (Commission of the European Episcopates for the Media) will be held in Rome from 25 to 27 April. It will be chaired by the Bishop of Gap (France), the Most Rev. Jean-Michel di Falco-Léandri. After the approval of the minutes of the previous meeting (Gap, 23-25 […]

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Austria, Scotland, Ireland

Austria: agreement on minimum income”A major and important event to protect Austria from poverty”. These were the remarks of Franz Küberl, President of Caritas, on the agreement on minimum guaranteed wages concluded between Social Affairs Minister Erwin Buchinger and the Bundesländer. Starting in 2009, social subsidies, regulated in different ways in the single Länder, will […]

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Germany, Slovakia, England

Germany: life is not a good to be importedWith a cross-party vote, on April 11 Germany’s Bundestag changed the “Stichtagsregelung” (regulating the dates for embryo stem cell imports). From now on, it will be possible to import embryo stem cells originated also after the 2002 expiry date and until May 1st 2007. The Catholic Church […]

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FRONT PAGE

Access to tragedy?

With 102 votes in favour and 69 against, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted on 16 April its Resolution 1607/2008 on “Access to an abortion without risks and legal in Europe” (see the report in this number of SIR Europe). Below we publish a comment by the Italian theologian Marco Doldi.Abortion […]

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