PRIMA PAGINA

Frontiere e fortezze

Il 13 febbraio 2008 sono state presentate le linee generali delle tre misure mirate a rafforzare i controlli alle frontiere europee: la realizzazione di un registro di ingresso e di uscita dei visitatori extracomunitari, la creazione di un sistema di sorveglianza delle frontiere chiamato Eurosur per individuare chi entra illegalmente nell’Unione (per esempio, a bordo […]

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EU news in brief

The European Union awards the best researchersHuman health treatment, environmental protection, technology development: the European Science Awards, presented on March 12 by the Commission involve different fields. “These prizes – explained Slovenian Commissioner Janez Potocnik – represent the best that Europe can give. They compensate qualities considered important for all scientists: excellence, openness and creativity”. […]

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EU COUNCIL

Decisions and delays

According to the agenda of the latest European Council heads of government and state were scheduled to debate the details of the Lisbon strategy, the measures to be adopted in the sphere of energy and climate changes along with provisions aimed at greater stability of financial markets, addressing at the same time the French Mediterranean […]

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EU PARLIAMENT

Forty years later

In the plenary session which preceded the reunion of the EU Council in Brussels, the EU parliament hosted a debate on the summit and celebrated its 50th birthday. The Hemicycle gave the green light to the creation of the European Institute of Technology. Safer and less polluting transportation, along with the modernization of the Common […]

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CHIARA LUBICH

A life devoted to unity

Before the funeral service, representatives of Christian Movements, bishops from different Churches along with representatives of other religions, all publicly expressed their message of condolences. This was probably the most significant token of the requiem funeral mass of the founder of the Focolari Movement Chiara Lubich, celebrated on Tuesday, March 18 in Saint Paul Outside […]

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ENGLAND

Coming together

Catholics who don’t go to church or who go only rarely, should know that the Church hasn’t forgotten them. She is concerned about them and awaits their return. These are the objectives of “KIT”, Keeping In Touch: a project launched an evening of four years ago in the parish church of St. Joseph, in London’s […]

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Austria, England,

Austria: a “sincere examination” of Nazism Although painful, Churches need to undertake a “sincere examination” of the years of Nazi rule and “call their own co-responsibility by name”, despite the single “lights of solidarity”. This is in brief the position of the Executive board of the Ecumenical Council of Austrian Churches (Örko), expressed in a […]

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Italy, Scandinavia, England

Italy: general elections, Italian episcopate non-alignedThe “line of non-involvement in any choice of political or party alignment” does not – underline the Italian bishops in a communiqué – lead to the “cultural diaspora of Catholics”, but represents “a task of greater importance” in relation not only “to the major challenges” such as war and terrorism, […]

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FRONT PAGE

Frontiers and fortresses

The general outlines of the three measures aimed at reinforcing the controls on European frontiers were presented on 13 February 2008: first, the realization of a database for the entry and exit of non-EU visitors; second, the creation of a frontier surveillance system called Eurosur to identify those who enter the Union illegally (for instance, […]

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EUROPA: CARD. POUPARD, "UNA MINORANZA CAPACE DI CREDERE" (2)

” “Per il card. Poupard, "la costruzione della nuova Europa", realtà ancora "in cammino" e "sulla cui strada non mancano difficoltà" sta dimostrando che "un’Europa verticistica e burocratica che non riesce a far amare ai cittadini il progetto unitario europeo, sta rischiando" addirittura "di farglielo mal sopportare". Si tratta, allora, di "vedere quale Europa vogliamo […]

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