CIPRO

Una visita storica

È iniziata ieri, 12 giugno la visita ufficiale in Vaticano dell’arcivescovo ortodosso di Cipro, Chrysostomos II, che culminerà sabato 16 giugno, con l’udienza di Benedetto XVI. Si tratta della prima visita nella storia, anche se la Chiesa ortodossa di Cipro è una delle più antiche (fondata nel 46 d.C.), dell’arcivescovo di Cipro al Papa. L’udienza […]

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Fare ancora meglio

“Lettera sociale della Chiesa cattolica in Lussemburgo” è il titolo del documento pubblicato nei giorni scorsi dall’arcivescovo del granducato, mons. Fernand Franck, al fine di tracciare “delle linee guida” per l’impegno “dei cristiani in quanto cittadini, e della Chiesa in quanto forza viva della società” si legge nel testo. Un piano quinquennale che richiama, in […]

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European Youth Week

The Third European Youth Week is now in progress (3-10 June). Its aim is to promote youth in the European programme of action and policies for youth and to contribute to dialogue between political decision-makers and youth. During the Week, youth initiatives will be held in most European countries. In addition an international event was […]

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Strategies for health

The European Commission published (on 1st June) a report on the “public consultation on future European strategy in the health sector”. The report shows that EU citizens “support the EU strategy and aspire to increased cooperation between the Commission and member states to improve and better safeguard health in Europe”. The survey, which is based […]

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European GDP growing

In spite of a slight slowdown over the last quarter of 2006, according to the estimates of Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Commission, the European average GDP both of the eurozone and the EU-27 grew by 0.6% in the first three months of this year. The annualised growth of GDP is calculated respectively […]

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For territorial cooperation

The first pan-European round table on the European Territorial Cooperation Group (ETCG) was held in Brussels on 7 June. ETCG is the new EU regulatory instrument “to facilitate the implementation and effective management of cross-border, trans-national or inter-regional projects” within the Union. The meeting, organized by the Committee of the Regions, was aimed at “evaluating […]

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Unemployment falling in the EU none

The statistics office of the European Commission (Eurostat) has published the data relating to unemployment in the European Union for April 2007. In the thirteen countries of the eurozone the rate dropped from 7.2 in March to 7.1% in April; the same figure was registered by the EU as a whole. The lowest unemployment rates […]

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Green Week

The aims are manifold: to permit an intensive debate between EU institutions and experts on individual issues of a political, legal, economic, social and environmental nature; to gather information and opinions and compare “good practices”; to involve public opinion, raise its awareness and enable it to participate in specific Community initiatives. These are the objectives […]

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Spain: end of the ETA truce, “bad news”

“The ETA communiqué announcing the end of the truce is bad news”, declare the bishops of the Basque dioceses of Bilbao, Ricardo Blázquez, President of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, of San Sebastián, Juan María Uriarte, and of Vitoria, Miguel Asurmendi, in response to the recent news of ETA’s unilateral breaking of the ceasefire, which has […]

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Austria-Croatia: bishops in joint session

For the first time since the independence of Croatia in 1991, the Bishops’ Conferences of Austria and Croatia met in joint session in Zagreb in recent days. A solemn mass was celebrated in Zagreb Cathedral at the end of the assembly. The rite was followed by a procession led by Cardinals Christoph Schönborn and Josip […]

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