ENLARGEMENT (1)

The new twelve

Twelve countries have recently joined the EU. Of these, ten are part of the great enlargement of 2004 (Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Hungary) while the remaining two, Romania and Bulgaria, joined the common household in 2007. SirEurope begins a journey through the new member states, beginning with Slovakia. […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Family Snapshot

It was half a century ago that Robert Schuman, a French politician and a catholic who was already considered at the time one of the fathers of a united Europe, was elected president of the European Parliament. The Parliamentary Assembly of the EEC inaugurated on March 19th, 1958 in Strasbourg; two months previously, the Commission […]

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GAZA

A slow agony

Gaza’s current situation has worsened since Israel invaded the West Bank in 1967. This is the concluding remark of a report drawn up by eight NGOs of the UK including Save the Children, Christian Aid, Cafod, Amnesty International, Trocaire and Care International. For a long time Jerusalem’s Caritas has been denouncing the tragic conditions of […]

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ECUMENISM

France, Wcc, Algeria

France: solidarity to Christian minorities”Carry each other’s burdens” was the title of the message which the Council of Christian Churches in France (CECEF) addressed believers just before the Passion celebrations. The document, bearing the signatures of the president and the two vice presidents of CECEF, the Greek Orthodox metropolitan and president of the Assembly of […]

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COMECE

Despite the uncertainties

“Behind politics lies metapolitics, which transcends party lines and forms the foundation of the projects and actions that as a whole tend to the realization of the common good in Europe”. From this consideration, enunciated by the bishops of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community) who concluded their 38th plenary assembly […]

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Germany, England, Holland

Germany: illegal immigration. Criticism to the EU Germany’s Bishops Conference criticized the attitude of the European Union (EU) towards illegal immigration. “The EU Commission views the fight against immigration as the centre of the Community’s migration policy”, declared on March 6 in Berlin Msgr. Josef Voß, immigration expert of the Bishops Conference. Msgr. Voß’s declaration […]

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FRONT PAGE

A better service

On May 10th José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, President of the present government and Secretary General of Psoe Party (Socialists), received a letter of congratulations signed on behalf of the Spanish bishops by the President of Spain’s Bishops Conference His Eminence Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, and by the Secretary General Msgr. Juan Antonio Martinez Camino: […]

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PROLUSIONE CARD. BAGNASCO: MIRABELLI, "UNA CHIESA INNERVATA NELLA SOCIETÀ" (3)

Di qui, prosegue il docente, la domanda alla politica "affinché eserciti il suo ruolo ‘alto’ di risposta ai problemi, di orientamento e guida in rapporto alle domande della popolazione e la sottolineatura del suo ruolo di esemplarità". Sul richiamo del presidente Cei a "uscire dall’individualismo", Mirabelli afferma: "Ciò deve avvenire anzitutto in una logica culturale: […]

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PROLUSIONE CARD. BAGNASCO: MIRABELLI, "UNA CHIESA INNERVATA NELLA SOCIETÀ" (2)

Per il costituzionalista "il richiamo così ‘concreto’ del card. Bagnasco non deve meravigliare: in esso non vi è alcuna linea materialistica o consumistica, ma, piuttosto una linea che guarda all’essenziale e, se ce ne fosse bisogno, conferma l’attenzione della Chiesa per l’uomo rammentando che esistono anche dei diritti economico-sociali garantiti dalla Costituzione e da diverse […]

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PROLUSIONE CARD. BAGNASCO: MIRABELLI, "UNA CHIESA INNERVATA NELLA SOCIETÀ"

"L’espressione di una Chiesa che vive profondamente innervata nella società e ne conosce e coglie anche le pieghe più nascoste": così Cesare Mirabelli, presidente emerito della Corte costituzionale e docente di diritto canonico ed ecclesiastico all’Università Tor Vergata di Roma, definisce l’invito rivolto ieri sera dal card. Bagnasco alla politica italiana in vista delle elezioni. […]

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