Spagna: dal rock alla preghiera

“Dal rock alla preghiera c’è poca distanza”: ne è convinto p.Eloi Aran, giovane gesuita catalano, tra i promotori di “Prega-rock”, un’iniziativa della Compagnia di Gesù della Catalogna, che vuole “offrire sussidi catechisti per proporre la fede ai giovani”. “La musica pop – dice p.Aran al Sir – contiene semi evangelici che possono entrare in risonanza […]

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Portogallo: contro lo sfruttamento dei minori in tv

A denunciare lo sfruttamento dei minori in tv e nel mondo dello spettacolo, è in Portogallo la Lega operaia cattolica, che nei giorni scorsi, a Vila Nova de Famalicão (Braga), ha organizzato un incontro per ricordare l’allarme lanciato nel Natale 1986, in cui denunciava l’utilizzo di bambini dai 10 ai 13 anni nelle aree di […]

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Employment rate grows

The number of those in employment in the European Union has slightly increased in the third quarter of 2006. According to the latest data from Eurostat, 517,000 workers found new jobs between July and September, 0.4% more than in the period April/June. As regards the 25-member European Union, the increase is of the order of […]

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Against car pollution

Brussels is taking further steps to curb atmospheric pollution caused by emissions of nitrogen oxide and other harmful particles by cars. The European Parliament has adopted two Proposals – called Euro 5 and Euro 6 – with the objective of drastically reducing the maximum permitted limits of polluting emissions for new vehicles, including vans. The […]

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Truly European railways

The European Commission last week adopted three measures aimed at “supporting the revitalization of the railway sector by removing obstacles to the circulation of trains throughout the European rail network”. The three measures in question are a Communication on the simplification of certification of railway vehicles, a Proposal to recast the existing Railway Inter-operability Directives […]

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Cost of manpower

Eurostat, the Statistics Office of the European Community, has published the data relating to the cost of manpower in the European Union, calculated on the basis of the wages on which workers are hired, allowances, pension contributions and bonuses net of income support. The growth begun in 1998 continues, in spite of a reduction in […]

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EUROBAROMETRO

The three priorities values

“The Eurobarometro survey shows that, just before the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaties that established the Community, “the citizens clearly associate the Union with such universal values as human rights, peace and democracy”. MARGOT WALLSTRÖM , deputy president of the Eu Commission, comments the Eurobarometro survey disclosed on 19th December. For the first time the […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Against the last dictatorship

“Europe can never be complete without Belarus”, declared ALEXANDER Milinkevich, leader of the democratic opposition to the regime installed by President Lukashenko, on receiving the Sakharov Prize during the last session of the European Parliament. The prize is assigned each year to personalities or organizations that have distinguished themselves in the defence of human rights […]

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GREAT BRITAIN

Children of the void

Over 20,000 children and adolescents play truants from school everyday rather than suffer the trauma of oppression by their bullying schoolmates. Disabled children and members of ethnic minorities – especially those of Islamic faith after the terror attacks of 7 July 2005 – are the preferred targets of the bullies that are ever more numerous […]

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BULGARIA

A sigh of relief

On 1st January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania will become members of the European Union, which will thus grow to 27 members. As this important deadline draws near, SirEurope has interviewed in Bulgaria the Minister of Bulgarian European Policies MEGLENA KUNEVA , who will also assume the post of European Commissioner for the Rights of Consumers […]

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