European dailies and periodicals

As the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome approaches and the debate continues on the Berlin Declaration, the document now being drafted by which the German Presidency of the Eu wishes to commemorate the anniversary, comments and analyses proliferate in the German press on the situation in the Eu and in particular on the […]

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Experts for energy and climate change

“Energy and climate change are two challenges that we must tackle at the world level. Europe forms part of the solution, and I am determined to see to it that the European Union is in the front line in tackling them, especially within the G8. I therefore hope that the greatest experts in the world […]

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Inflation also falling

Progress has also been reported on the inflation front, where the positive trend begun at the end of 2005 continues. In January 2007, in fact, the Eurozone registered a rate of 1.8%, against 1.9% in the previous month and 2.4% in January 2006: the EU-27 shows a more contained improvement: 2.1% for January (compared with […]

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Unemployment falling

Good news has once again come out of Brussels on the front of efforts to reduce unemployment in the Eu. According to data published by Eurostat last week and referring to January 2007, the unemployment rate in the Eurozone has dropped to 7.4%, a fall of a tenth of a percentage point over the previous […]

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Regions for economic growth

Using to the best the opportunities provided by the structural funds of the European Union to improve cohesion, foster growth and create better quality jobs: that’s the objective of the new Eu initiative “Regions for economic growth” inaugurated by the Commissioner for Regional Policy Danuta Hubner and by the chairman of the Committee of the […]

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

Essential rights

Relation between freedom of expression and religious beliefs; fight against terrorism and the security of citizens: two questions much in the news today on which the Council of Europe is promoting new initiatives between March and April this year. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, RESPECT FOR RELIGIONS. “Blasphemy, insults of a religious character and instigation to religious […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Declarations of intent

The most explicit was GRAHAM WATSON , English MEP, head of the Liberal Democratic group, who called “bizarre” the fact that “a declaration should be discussed without a draft being available”. On Wednesday 14 March the European Parliament debated, together with the representatives of the EU Commission and Council, the “Declaration on the Future of […]

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MIGRANTS

At the service of integration

“The reform of the law on immigration must really improve the situation of those whose presence has been tolerated for many years”, declared the representative of the Council of the German Evangelical Church (EKD), STEPHAN REIMERS, and the director of the Commissariat of the German bishops in Berlin, Msgr. KARL JÜSTEN , commenting on the […]

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YOUTH

The European dream

A Europe for everyone, a Europe of many cultures, a Europe renewed, without barriers, more just and caring – that’s the Europe dreamt of by the Catholic university youth who met with Benedict XVI on Saturday 10 March on the occasion of the 5th European Day of University Students on the theme “Intellectual charity, way […]

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Germany: Stuttgart, 25th anniversary of youth centre

The 25th anniversary of the opening of the International Centre of Spirituality for Youth, founded on the initiative of the diocese and province of the Scalabrinian missionaries for migrants, was celebrated in Stuttgart in recent days. Some 200 people of 18 different nationalities were present at the meeting. The project developed by the Centre in […]

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