Hungary: Caritas in Sri Lanka

“This gesture of aid expresses Christian solidarity. My heart is full of joy also thanks to the patron chosen for the boys’ college: St. Emeric, the protector of Hungarian youth: may he also be an example of life for our youth”, said the Archbishop of Colombo Oswald Gomis, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Sri […]

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FRONT PAGE

There’s no going back

Thanks to the World Cup, the Germans are once again proud of their national identity, even if many warn of the danger of a nationalistic revival. But which of us feels European? Who does not associate the EU in the first place with an elephantine bureaucracy or the squandering of billions in subsidies? Great hopes […]

di Volker Hasenauer editor of the german catholic press agency KNA

European dailies and periodicals

Bush’s State of the Union address to the Congress is variously analysed by the German press. “ Anyone who begins the last two years of his own term of office with the appeal to people to have a little more patience, and give him a further chance, one last time, is not well placed“, observes […]

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REVIEW OF IDEAS

The common project

Distinguish, involve, define: in these three verbs may be epitomized the “recipe” of PAUL THIBAUD , philosopher and writer, to extricate Europe from the situation of impasse in which it currently languishes and give it new impetus. Writing in the last number of the French review of international policy, following the entry of Bulgaria and […]

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Family law – Eurobarometer

Coinciding with the informal Council meeting of EU Ministers of Justice (see above), Eurobarometer has published the results of a survey conducted (between 31 March and 5 April 2006) on a sample of 25,000 citizens over the age of 15 from 25 member states. The survey asked the interviewees to express an opinion on various […]

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Greater guarantee for family law

During the recent informal meeting of the Justice and Internal Affairs Council in Dresden, the Vice-President of the Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Franco Frattini confirmed the commitment of Brussels to collaborate with the German Presidency of the Union to achieve one of the fundamental points of the programme relating to a greater involvement of […]

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Communicating Europe together

The last consultative Forum on the White Paper of the European Commission on communication policy was held in Berlin on 18-19 January. The meeting – organized jointly by the Executive and the German Presidency of the EU and entitled “Communicating Europe Together” – was attended by over 300 representatives of Community Institutions, national and local […]

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Pluralism of information

A working document of the services of the European Commission on pluralism of the media; an independent study on the pluralism of the media in EU member states (in 2007); and a Communication of the Commission on the indices of the pluralism of the media in member states (in 2008): these are the “three stages” […]

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Bioethics, research subject to economic pressure

The Bishop of Limburg, Franz Kamphaus, interviewed by the German Catholic press agency KNA, has expressed his views on the current debate on bioethics in Germany: “In recent times I have become sceptical about the possible utility of genetic research. I have the impression that research in this field has developed a dynamic of its […]

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The State should better support life

Greater state recognition and support for the Church’s counselling centres that devote themselves to the protection of unborn life and women have been urged by the bishop of Eichstätt, Gregor Maria Hanke. In his first intervention as bishop, during the new year’s festivity held in Eichstätt on 20 January, Bishop Hanke asked Christians who fill […]

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