Slovenia: 500 biblisti a congresso

Circa 500 tra biblisti e studiosi da tutto il mondo saranno, dal 12 al 20 luglio, a Ljubljana per il XIX congresso Iosot, l’organizzazione internazionale per lo studio del Vecchio Testamento. L’iniziativa si colloca all’interno dell’Anno della Bibbia, in corso di svolgimento in Slovenia. Il Paese è il primo tra quelli ex-comunisti ad ospitare un […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Popoli e strade

Nel sud Europa l’estate significa necessità di scappare dal caldo insopportabile delle città per trovare un po’ di freschezza in montagna o al mare. Per l’Europa centrale e dell’Est l’arrivo del tempo estivo assume un significato specifico. Ad esempio per molti abitanti poter passare una o due settimane al mare era un sogno e pur […]

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European dailies and periodicals

The Constitutional Court in Karsruhe has ruled that MPs must publicly document any supplementary income they receive if in excess of 1000 euros per month. The SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG comments as follows (04/07): “The sentence involves a reinforcement of parliamentary democracy. The reasons in favour and against the obligation to declare [supplementary income] are many. The […]

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REVIEW OF IDEAS

Teaching for prevention

New guidelines on the teaching of Islamic religion are given in an article published in June edition of Herder Korrespondenz, and signed by Harry Harun Behr, professor of the teaching of Islamic religion at the University of Erlangen-Norimberga since 2006. The author reports on experiments underway in some Bundesländer. POSITIVE INTEGRATION. At a conference in […]

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Business confidence remains high

The good performance of the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) and the Business Climate Indicator (BCI) continues. The two indicators are calculated on the basis of surveys conducted at the European level on the opinion and confidence of various production sectors with regard to the trends of the EU economy and the quality of the financial […]

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Summer tourism

Eurostat (the statistics office of the European Commission) published in late June the data relating to summer tourism in the territory of the member states of the EU during the summer season of 2006, with particular reference to the number of individual overnight stays in hotels or similar. In the period June-September 2006, a total […]

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Multilingualism and integration

The first meeting of the “Group of intellectuals and experts in multilingualism” was held in Brussels last week, co-chaired by Commissioner Leonard Orban and the Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The Group is composed of ten independent personalities from Lebanon, Denmark, Germany, Morocco, Belgium, Czech Republic, UK, Romania, Spain and Portugal. The European Commission has given […]

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Investing in people

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the European Social Fund (EFS), the German Presidency of the EU held an inter-ministerial conference at Potsdam last week with the title “50 years of investments in people”. The two-day conference – in which hundreds of “key players” from all over Europe took part […]

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ROMANIA

Reversing the trend

“The family relation generates openness, reciprocal support and mutual aid”, says Father FABIAN MARIUT , priest of the diocese of Bucharest, where he fills the role of head of the office for family pastoral care. He’s also a careful observer of the social reality of his country, just a few months after it joined the […]

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COMECE

The year of dialogue

The June number of “Europe infos”, monthly of COMECE (Commission of the episcopates of the European Community) and OCIPE (Catholic Office of Information and Initiative for Europe) focuses on the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in 2008. “Intercultural dialogue has now become a key element of politics: after the events of 11 September, the various […]

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