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“What Russian women think about Europe?” It’s rather difficult question but let us try to answer it. First thought which goes to the mind – “It’s another world!” This has not good or bad connotation – just the first flash, the first fact. Of course nowadays, when world situation has changed in Russia we have […]

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Scotland: a Dvd against the “da Vinci Code”

A DVD to reject and discredit the ideas expounded in Dan Brown’s bestseller “The da Vinci Code”: that’s the project that the Scottish Catholic Church has adopted and assigned to the Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Patrick Reilly, the first Catholic professor at the university since the time of the Reformation. […]

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Italy: on foot to Rome on the ancient pilgrimage road

A pilgrimage of 816 km in 40 days, from Susa (Piedmont) to La Storta, at the gates of Rome: that’s the project “Ad Limina Petri”, the youth pilgrimage along the ancient pilgrimage road, the Via Francigena, on the 5th anniversary of the Vatican Basilica, presented in Rome in recent days. Promoted by the national Youth […]

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Turkey: Easter of sharing

Eggs in hand-painted porcelain vases donated by the Muslim authorities, closer contacts with the Jewish community and with the other Christian confessions: these, according to Father Rubén Tierrablanca, who heads the international Franciscan Fraternity in Istanbul, are “the signs that accompanied this Easter 2006, celebrated simultaneously with Jews, a week before the Orthodox Easter on […]

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Belgium: bishops reject adoptions for gay couples

On 20 April the Senate of Belgium approved, with 34 votes in favour, 33 against and 2 abstentions, the bill that would allow the adoption of children by homosexual couples. The bishops of the country had opposed it, recalling that the difference between the sexes is the fundamental point of reference of the family”. A […]

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Economic growth

“Dynamic factor model”: that’s the name of the model developed at the end of 2004 by the General Directorate for Economic and Financial affairs of the European Commission to forecast the trend of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Euro zone. The latest version of the model forecasts a GDP growth in the Euro […]

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Internal market

A wave of legal proceedings has been triggered against EU member states for failure to implement EU legislation on the internal market. Referral by the Commission to the Court of Justice “due to lack of communication of national measures for the implementation” of the legislation is question involves a total of 19 member states and […]

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Inflation

In spite of the alarms at the start of the year, the latest data published by Eurostat on inflation register a slight decline of the annual rate in the Euro zone for March 2006 (2.2%) compared with the previous month (2.3%), thus confirming the positive trend begun in February and the rapid estimate of consumer […]

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Eu budget

“Better planning and constant improvement in the management of the EU budget, at all levels, produce concrete results. The member states now pay to the EU budget only the contributions that are really necessary”, said Dalia Grybauskaité, European Commissioner for financial and budgetary planning. She was commenting on the finding, as surprising as it is […]

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Not only that cloud

The tragedy of Chernobyl as a lesson of history and a warning for the future: the parliamentary session of Brussels on 26-27 April opened with a debate on the day marking the 20th anniversary of the explosion of the reactor at the nuclear power station situated 120 km from Kiev, “releasing into the sky a […]

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