Anti-fraud: seizures throughout Europe” “

The first coordinated operation of the European Office for anti-fraud (OLAF), to which the police forces of various EU countries contributed, to combat counterfeiting, has proved wholly successful. The operation was organized by OLAF and by the General Directorate of fiscal questions and customs union of the European Commission from May 2005 onwards: the results […]

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EU institutions: Urban, budget and Reach” “

The European Commission “is studying ways of contributing to the regeneration of the French suburbs devastated by ten days of guerrilla warfare” and marked by social degradation. Funds allocated to the Urban programme, created to support urban regeneration in European states for the period 2000-2006 and so far unused, could be used for the project, […]

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A new strategy for transparency” “

The goal is an open and transparent “common home”. To this end, on Wednesday 9 November, the European Commission adopted the guiding principles for a renewed strategy for the “transparency of the institutions”, to which Commissioners Wallström, Kallas, Hûbner and Fischer Boel all contributed. The main objective, during this phase of impasse of the process […]

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One of them is lacking” “

The internal market of the European Union is still incomplete; of the four “fundamental liberties” established by the six founding states as the backbone of the European Economic Community in 1957 – circulation of persons, goods, capital and services -, one has so far remained on paper. So work is going ahead in Brussels and […]

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November 2005″ “

4 Eucharistic Celebration officiated by the archbishop of Krakow , Stanislaw Dziwisz, in the city’s Cathedral, on the occasion of the start of the rogatory process of the cause of beatification of the Venerable Servant of God John Paul II. Plenary Assembly of the French Bishops’ Conference (4-9) , at Lourdes. 2005 World Congress of […]

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Not minor offences” “

The European Churches have acted resolutely to counter the sexual abuses committed by priests, religious and laity employed in Church offices. After Ireland and England, new measures to curb the phenomenon have been introduced in Austria too. At the end of October the Primate of Ireland, Archbishop Sean Brady, announced the setting up of a […]

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Austria: commemoration of the pogroms of 1938″ “

The traditional week of prayer and commemoration “Mechaye Hametim”, held in Vienna in recent days, was dedicated to the memory of the Nazi pogroms in November 1938. The high point of the week was an ecumenical celebration held in the Ruprechtskirche in Vienna on 9 November. The service was followed by a march to the […]

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Germany: Edith Stein Prize to Bishop Homeyer” “

Josef Homeyer, bishop emeritus of Hildesheim, has received the Edith Stein Prize of the city of Göttingen for his services in Eastern Europe. The prize was presented to him at Göttingen on 6 November. As emphasized by Serafim Romuln Joantá, Metropolitan of the Romanian-Orthodox Metropolitanate for Germany and Central Europe, Homeyer “overcame limits in a […]

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France: the bishops on catechesis” “

Catechesis as place of first evangelization: that is the theme developed in a document of the French bishops, presented to the recent plenary assembly in Lourdes. It must now be approved by the Holy See. In a press release issued on 9 November, the bishops explain that the document “is not a catechism but one […]

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Portugal: new evangelization congress” “

“The contemporary world is troubled and unsettled, irresponsible and indifferent”: that’s why initiatives of new evangelization, like the one that is taking place in Lisbon (5-13 November), are needed”, writes Benedict XVI in his message to the participants in the city mission in Lisbon, which is being held in the framework of the International Congress […]

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