PRIMA PAGINA" "

Il momento giusto?” “

L’accordo raggiunto dai capi di stato e di governo al Summit del Consiglio di dicembre sulle prospettive finanziarie 2007-2013 è una buona notizia per l’Unione Europea. Nonostante gli ostacoli, è stato raggiunto un accordo su una questione che sembrava impossibile risolvere solo sei mesi prima. L’accordo ora consente all’Unione Europea di presentare un piano settennale: […]

di Noël Treanor" "Comece – Europe Infos" "

European dailies” “

“ This encyclical of Benedict XVI on love does not in the least resemble the normative documents published by his predecessors, Paul VI and John Paul II, on sex and the ethics of husband and wife”, comments the French daily Le Monde (26/1) in its article under the title “ Love is the subject of […]

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More energy from biomasses” “

The European Union has presented an Action Plan to re-launch the use of biomasses for the production of “green energy” as an alternative to petroleum (ever more expensive) and natural gas (whose dependence on Russia and Ukraine is beginning to become problematic). Biomass energy is derived from the combustion of products of agriculture and forestry […]

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Growth of industrial production” “

The growth of industrial production in the Eurozone is picking up again. After two consecutive months of significant decline, the seasonal rate relating to November 2005 registered an increase of 1.3% over the previous month (in spite of the significant slowing down of industrial production in Germany, offset by a better than expected performance of […]

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Counterfeiting of euro coins” “

The number of euro coins withdrawn from circulation because fake is still limited but constantly growing. The figures of the European Central Bank (ECB) speak of some 96,000 coins withdrawn in 2005, in comparison with 74,564 in 2004 and “only” 26,191 in 2003. The situation is not thought unduly worrying by the banking and judicial […]

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Eu anti-flood directive” “

Seven hundred deaths, half a million people made homeless, over 25 billion euros in damages reimbursed by insurance companies, and incalculable economic losses for millions of victims: that is the tragic balance sheet of the floods in Europe in the period 1998-2004, a phenomenon ever more frequent and catastrophic in scale that has flailed the […]

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Music for unity” “

“The aim of the conference is to stimulate a wide-ranging debate on Europe and contribute to a change of paradigms to promote a new awareness of the idea of community and, perhaps, to bring a wind of optimism to our societies”, declared the Austrian Presidency of the European Council in presenting “Sound of Europe”, two […]

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Dietrich bonhoeffer " "

"Whoever I am"” “

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born to an upper middle class Berlin family at Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland) on 4 February 1906. He studied theology at Tübingen and at the University of Berlin, completing his studies with the famous dissertation “Sanctorum Communio”. A pupil of A. von Harnack, he was a pastor in German evangelical parishes […]

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Germany: ecumenical booklet for Olympic athletes” “

A 40-page ecumenical booklet containing spiritual texts, meditations and blessings has been published for the German athletes participating in the next Winter Olympic Games in Turin (10-26 February) and in the Paralympics. Part of the kit being given to all German athletes participating in the Turin Olympics, the booklet, with the title “Thank God sport […]

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Norway: gay unions divide the Lutherans” “

The recognition of homosexual unions is dividing the Lutheran Church in Norway. The debate was re-kindled following the publication in recent days of a theological report in which the question is posed: “Do the Scriptures speak of homosexuality is such a way that the Church can claim a foundation for accepting homosexual unions?”. To this […]

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