Irlanda

Contro le droghe “ricreative”L’arcivescovo di Dublino, mons. Diarmuid Martin, ha lanciato un attacco contro le droghe ricreative sostenendo che non vi è dubbio che esse siano collegate alla violenza delle gang e che è sbagliato negare questo legame. Durante un discorso in occasione della funzione religiosa per la cittadinanza nella cattedrale anglicana di “Christ Church” […]

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Faulty administration

Following a charge by the English NGO Statewatch, European Mediator Nikiforos Diamandouros formalized a decision criticizing the European Commission for not having published the 2005 Annual Report on public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents. During the lawsuit before Strasburg’s Ombudsman, the lawyers of the Commission – admitting the delay – had ascribed […]

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Fight Against Terrorism

The Community’s executive board adopted a new set of proposals aimed at increasing EU’s potential in the fight against terrorism on three major topics: training and recruiting criminalization for terrorist purposes and instigation to commit acts of terrorism; prevention in the use of explosives; data on airplane passengers. In the awareness that “terrorism continues to […]

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Award to European Citizenship

Ten were the projects which the EU awarded with a Golden Star during the Forum for Europe for 2007 citizens and intercultural dialogue for “having encouraged in an exemplary way citizens’ active participation to EU-related projects”, especially as relates to civil society and city twinning. During the ceremony, Ian Flegl, the Commissioner in charge of […]

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Conflict prevention

On November 12-13 Brussels hosted the world conference “From providential alarm to providential action: developing EU response to crisis and long-term threats”, organized by the General Direction for External Relations of the Commission to discuss latest progress at Community level in the sector of conflict prevention in the various areas of the world, from regional […]

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The world in Europe

It was a session characterized by the presence in Strasbourg of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, by the debate on the free circulation of people within EU frontiers, and by an analysis of the Commission’s document on the challenge of globalization. Meeting from 12 to 15 November, the European Parliament approved various reports and resolutions and […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The possible future

He did not disappoint expectations. NICOLAS SARKOZY , President of the French Republic, invited to give a speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday, 13 November, tackled the main problems that regard the future of the EU, without ignoring an analysis of the “crisis” that led to the rejection of the Constitution by the electors […]

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CROATIA

Historic crossroads

Croatia made “substantial” progress to the extent that its EU adhesion is “tangible and concrete”. This is what emerges from the latest Enlargement Report by the European Commission recently illustrated by EU Commissioner Olli Rehn. A good viatic for the country, guided by Stipe Mesic who is nearing parliamentary elections on November 25. Criticism however […]

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Germany

Treaty, a significant step”A great success” but also criticism. This was the evaluation by Cardinal Karl Lehmann, bishop of Magonza and President of the German Bishops Conference on the future treaty of the European Union, expressed in the past days in Magonza at St. Martnsemfgang, the traditional annual meeting of the bishops of Renania Paltinato […]

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Ireland

Against “recreational” drugsMonsignor Diarmuid Martin, archbishop of Dublin, launched an attack against recreational drugs by saying that these are undoubtedly linked to gang violence and that it would be wrong to deny it. During his address on the occasion of the religious celebration for citizenship in the Anglican “Christ Church” Cathedral in Dublin, Mons. Martin […]

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