PORTOGALLO

“Un certo malessere”

Al termine del Consiglio permanente della Conferenza episcopale portoghese (Cep), riunitosi recentemente a Fatima, il segretario, mons. Carlos Azevedo, ha lamentato la “mancanza di dialogo” nelle relazioni del governo portoghese con la Chiesa Cattolica, ammettendo un certo “malessere” di fronte all’accumularsi di situazioni che permangono irrisolte. In particolare, i vescovi si riferiscono alle “problematiche riguardanti […]

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I monaci-pompieri compiono 100 anni

Non sono solo dediti alla preghiera e al lavoro monastico, nel rispetto della Regola benedettina, Ora et Labora, ma quando serve si trasformano in vigili del fuoco volontari. Si tratta dell’unità di pompieri volontari della comunità dei monaci di St. Ottilia (Benedettini missionari) che il 14 luglio ha festeggiato il Centenario della fondazione con la […]

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European dailies and periodicals

“European countries, including France, have reason to rejoice in an announcement that raises the hope of a favourable outcome to this twofold tragedy, with a possible speedy extradition of the six prisoners to Bulgaria”, comments Le Monde (19/7) on the outcome of the trial in Libya against the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor accused […]

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Financial interests of the Union

The 2006 Annual Report of the Commission on the protection of the financial interests of the EU and the crackdown on fraud describes the main provisions for the prevention and countering of fraud taken by the member states and by the competent services at the EU level. It also furnishes a list of the thousands […]

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Management of immigration

Two calls for tenders endowed with a budget of 15 million euros relating to the EU programme “Solidarity in Action” were published in the official gazette of the European Community (GUCE, series C) on 9 July. The programme covers trans-national projects in the field of the repatriation of clandestine immigrants, the employment of repatriated immigrants, […]

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Promotion of EU farm products

The European Commission has communicated the approval of 23 programmes relating to the organization of campaigns of information and promotion of EU agricultural products, for a total budget of 77.7 million euros down to 2009. The programmes -which will be developed in Germany, France, Greece, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Holland, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Portugal […]

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Coal and steel

Following the winding up of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 2002, the Fund for Research on Coal and Steel (FRCS) is the first agency of the European Union – complementary to the 7th Framework programme of Technological Research and Development – that funds actions and studies relating to all the aspects linked […]

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

For greater mutual respect

“State, religion, secularism and human rights” and “Blasphemy, insults of a religious character and incitement to hatred against persons on grounds of their religion”: these are the two recommendations approved by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (COE), meeting in Strasbourg from 25 to 29June. The two recommendations are available in “provisional version” […]

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EUROPEAN UNION

Doors open to the world

In the year when the 20th anniversary of the Erasmus programme is being celebrated, the EU is re-launching Erasmus Mundus in the grand style and throwing open the doors of the universities of its 27 member states to students from all over the world. At the same time the need is emerging to improve the […]

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ECUMENISM

The thought of God

“God between loss of meaning and existential content”: that’s the theme of the 9th Summer Ecumenical Academy, held at Kremsmünster in Austria between 11 and 13 July. The conference ended with the traditional round table; its participants included the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan MICHAEL STAIKOS , the Catholic bishop MANFRED SCHEUER (Bishop of Innsbruck) and the […]

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