European dailies and periodicals

The German media comment on the decision of the Merkel government to send reconnaissance planes to Afghanistan. Arnd Festerling writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau (8/2) as follows: “ There’s a war going on in Afghanistan…. In this war the German armed forces have so far participated only in a very limited way…. With the sending […]

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“The strength of Europe lies in its diversity”

During the recent pan-European Conference on discrimination and equal opportunities, the European Commissioner for Social Affairs Vladimir Spidla and the German Minister for the Family Ursula von der Leyen inaugurated “2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for Everyone”. The EU initiative has the declared objective of “permitting the development of the potential and abilities of […]

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Inflation stable in the Eurozone

Eurostat – the Statistics Office of the European Community – has announced its “rapid estimate” for January 2007, according to which inflation on an annual basis referred to the countries of the Eurozone stands at 1.9%, unvaried over the official percentage rate registered in December 2006. The rapid estimate of inflation is calculated on the […]

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Unemployment falling

The gradual decline in unemployment in the Eurozone is continuing. According to the data of Eurostat, the rate registered in December 2006 is equivalent to 7.5%, in contrast to 7.6% in the previous month. The improvement can be shown even more clearly if we consider the figure for December 2005, when unemployment affected 8.4% of […]

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Funds for Tic

The “greatest invitation to present proposals ever launched in the history of the research projects funded by the EU” expires on 8 May 2007. The call for tenders – which places over 1.2 billion euros at the disposal of European consortia – concerns the new technologies of information and communication (TIC) as part of the […]

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Taizé: 30th ecumenical meeting in Geneva

During a conference recently held in Geneva, the Reformed, Roman Catholic and Catholic-Christian Churches of Geneva and Vaud explained the sense of the ecumenical project that will bring an estimated 30,000/40,000 young pilgrims to the city in December. The ecumenical community of Taizé, which annually organizes youth rallies in late December, intends to mobilise the […]

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Hungary: Catholic and Protestant journalists

Is the digitalization of the media only a technical question, or is it also a business, or perhaps a common economic interest? This is the question at the centre of a conference that the Association of Hungarian Catholic Journalists (Makusz) and the Association of Protestant Journalists (Prusz) are promoting in Budapest today on “Digitalization: the […]

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ECUMENISM

Austria: dialogue with the Orthodox

In 2007 the Viennese Foundation “Pro Oriente” intends to step up its dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church as well as with the Orthodox Churches of southern Europe, while also keeping its efforts to improve relations with Islam at the centre of its activities. The objectives of Pro Oriente for this year were outlined by […]

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96-year-old candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize

Irena Sendler, who is now 96 years old, saved over 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. She has been selected as one of the candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. From the autumn of 1940 onwards, Irena Sendler, disguised as a Red Cross nurse, took food, […]

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Day of the Sick

The 15th Day of the Sick will be celebrated in Poland in an atmosphere marked by the dramatic crisis of the national health service. The government plans to transfer some 180 million euros to the health service in the next three years. But the sum is only a drop in the ocean of debts accumulated […]

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