Bulgaria: the 120th anniversary of Burdarski Geran

The 120th anniversary of one of the symbolic Catholic settlements in northern Bulgaria, Burdarski Geran, was celebrated on the last Sunday in May. Its inhabitants are in fact the descendents of the first Bulgarian Catholics who came from Ciprovzi; led by the Catholic bishop Petar Parchevich, they staged the first revolt against the Turkish occupation […]

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Austria: a “re-awakening” for youth

“Re-awakening”: that’s the motto chosen by Austrian Catholic Youth for the international youth pilgrimage to Mariazell planned between 12 and 15 August. Markus Muth, in charge of youth pastoral care, called the pilgrimage one of the “salient points” of the events organized to mark the 850th anniversary of Mariazell. Tens of thousands of young pilgrims […]

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On human dignity

For the third time since the present European Commission came into office, a meeting has been held between the President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso and some representatives of the Church and religious leaders. This meeting, chaired by Barroso, was held on 15 May and marked a new stage in the development of a […]

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A study of the Institute of Demographic Development in Berlin on the situation in East Germany has shown that, among the younger generations, only unemployed young adult males, for the most part unskilled, remain in the countries of the former DDR. Girls, on the other hand, as soon as they have obtained their secondary school-leaving […]

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Promotion of agricultural products

The European Commission last week proposed a new joint legal framework for the formation of EU agricultural products both on the internal market and on the markets of third countries. The legislative simplification in question – harmonizing the two Regulations currently in force and merging them into a single text – is intended to “facilitate […]

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European Programme for Culture

The European Council has allocated an overall budget of 400 million euros to the EU Programme for Culture for the period 2007-2013. The Programme is the successor of the Culture 2000 Programme, which is now completing the projects funded during the previous seven-year period. The motto of the new Culture Programme is “crossing borders – […]

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New Directive for audiovisuals

After 18 months of negotiation, the European Council and Parliament finally reached a political agreement on 24 May on the new EU Directive relating to audiovisual media services without frontiers, whose entry into force is expected by the end of the year. Member states will then have a period of 24 months to transpose the […]

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European cities for growth and employment

An informal ministerial meeting on “Urban development and territorial cohesion” was held at Leipzig in Germany on 24-25 May. During the meeting two consultative documents were adopted: the “Territorial Agenda of the European Union” and the “Leipzig Charter on the Sustainable European City”. Both the German Presidency of the EU and European Commissioner for Regional […]

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MIGRAZIONI: CASTLES (UNIVERSITÀ DI OXFORD), "NON POSSONO ESSERE ARRESTATE O SCATENATE" CON "L’INTERRUTTORE" DELLE POLITICHE

Circa il 3% della popolazione mondiale è composta da migranti, ma le politiche migratorie sanno essere efficaci? E’ quanto si è chiesto oggi a Roma Stephens Castles, docente all’Università di Oxford e co-direttore dell’International Migration Institute, intervenuto All’incontro "Le migrazioni internazionali" (Università La Sapienza). "Vi sono tre motivi per i quali queste politiche possono fallire […]

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BRASILE: IL MESSAGGIO AI POPOLI DELLA V CONFERENZA GENERALE DELL’EPISCOPATO LATINOAMERICANO E DEI CARAIBI (3)

Il messaggio al popolo latinoamericano fa, poi, riferimento alle precedenti Conferenze generali: "A Medellín (nel 1968, ndr) e a Puebla (nel 1979) abbiamo concluso dicendo: Crediamo. Ad Aparecida, come abbiamo fatto a Santo Domingo (nel 1992), proclamiamo con tutte le nostre forze: Crediamo e speriamo. Speriamo di… essere una Chiesa viva, fedele e credibile; vivere […]

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