CCEE

Un livello più profondo

“Non è nostro compito decidere o preparare l’incontro del Papa con Alessio II; mentre il dialogo teologico di sostanza viene svolto e guidato dal competente dicastero della Santa Sede, a noi spetta l’impegno per il miglioramento dei rapporti e la collaborazione pratica con il mondo ortodosso”. Lo ha detto il 26 aprile il card. PETER […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

Un’amara impressione

Il Parlamento europeo ha approvato in questi giorni il regolamento sui medicinali per terapie avanzate, regolamento che intende creare un quadro normativo armonizzato per i prodotti destinati alla terapia genica e alla terapia cellulare somatica e quelli di ingegneria tessutale. Queste terapie si basano su approcci genici e cellulari per prevenire e trattare malattie o […]

di Marco Doldi teologo moralista Italia

Crackdown on illegal immigration

The operational plan of the European Agency for the management of cooperation on the external frontiers of EU member states (FRONTEX) was recently presented. The agency, based in Warsaw, has a budget of almost 35 million Euros for activities of coordination, assistance and control of national policies in the field of prevention and the crackdown […]

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Biotechnologies

“Bio4Eu” is the acronym of Biotechnology for Europe Study , the report recently presented by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. It reviews the various biotechnological applications in the EU, specifying their impacts and the challenges they pose. Given the relative shortage of information linked to the low number of data bases, […]

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Rights and participation

The European Council adopted the programme ‘Fundamental Rights and Citizenship’ on 20 April. The programme’s objective is to “support respect for fundamental rights and encourage the participation of citizens in the democratic life of the European Union”. The budgetary allocation to the programme for the period 2007-2013 is 93.8 million Euros. Tolerance, intercultural dialogue and […]

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Consumers: risks to be avoided

The European Commission published the RAPEX Report on dangerous consumer products last week. Thanks to increased cooperation between EU and national customs’ authorities, the number of dangerous products for human health withdrawn from European markets is constantly growing: 388 restrictive measures in 2004, 701 in 2005 and 924 last year. RAPEX (the EU rapid alert […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Between darkness and light

Bronislaw Geremek, one of the historic leaders of Solidarnosc, runs the risk of having his term as MEP terminated due to the “purification” begun by the government in Warsaw against those who committed crimes of the Communist period. The EP, meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg from 23 to 26 April, tackled various questions, including […]

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WEST AND EAST

The thread of knowledge

A declaration of intent was signed in recent days at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy) between the Catholic University itself, the State University of International Relations in Moscow and the Sofia association (Idea of Russia Idea of Europe), the promoter of this project under the name “Ad fontes”. The signing […]

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FRANCE

A fresh path?

With respectively 31.11% and 25.83% of the vote, Nicholas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal attracted, in the first round of the presidential elections in France on 22 April, the support of over half the French electorate. There was also a record voter turnout: 84.6% of those with the right to vote; so high a figure has […]

di Jean-Dominique Durand University of Lyon

Callings: Japanese manga also used

Japanese Manga to promote callings in the United Kingdom. The idea of the English Bishops Conference comes just before the Day of Callings, which falls on Sunday 29th April. For the occasion, the English Bishops have also published the latest statistics on callings, which see the number of applicant priests constantly rising over the last […]

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