CATHOLIC SCHOOLS " "

For the common good” “

“The time has come to work to ensure that the educational provision of Catholic schools be increasingly appreciated as a culturally proficient and valuable service for all pupils, where the person of each is fostered and helped to express itself fully in dialogue and in the encounter with others”, declared Msgr. CESARE NOSIGLIA , bishop […]

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MIGRATION " "

Security and reception” “

The question of immigration has by now become an urgent priority in Europe. It is perceived as a worrying problem, incited by the stories in the news every day and by some not always justified psychological pressure. In particular the phenomenon of immigration intersects with the problems of demographic policies, the integration of foreigners in […]

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"More coherence in demographic policies"” “

The European Churches and Christian organizations that deal with immigrants and youth ask for “greater coherence” in the demographic policies of the European Union. The joint appeal – signed by the CEC (Conference of European Churches), the Commission of the Churches for Migrants in Europe (CCME), the Ecumenical Council of Youth in Europe (EYCE) and […]

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European Theological Faculties” “

The European theological faculties will draw ever closer together. This is the objective of the second “Consultation of the European Theological Faculties”, organized by the European Conference of Churches (CEC) and Catholic Theology Faculty of the University of Graz from 6 to 9 July 2006. The title of the consultation is “The challenges of theology […]

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CCEE – COMECE - CEC " "

Third European Ecumenical Assembly ” “

The local Committee of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly (Aee3), due to be held in Sibiu from 4 to 9 September 2007, was set up in the Romanian city on 17 October, in the presence of the two General Secretaries of CCEE and CEC. The local Committee consists of nine members representing the various Churches […]

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FRONT PAGE " "

The Europe of the media” “

When, after the Second World War, the founding fathers of the new Europe created the Council of Europe and the European Community, they did so in the hope of reinforcing peace and fostering democracy. Today, in the year in which we are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of the war, the European peoples […]

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International dailies and periodicals” “

The attention of the world’s media has been focused in recent days on the start of the trial against Saddam Hussein. “From where to begin?”, says the German daily Die Welt (19/10): “That is the question posed by the judges of the special tribunal in view of the incredible quantity and violence of the crimes […]

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European youth unemployment remains high” “

Eurostat – the Statistics Office of the European Commission – has published its Report on employment in the 254 Regions of the EU. The data, relating to 2004, confirm a situation of wide disparity: from 2.4% unemployment in the English counties of Dorset and Somerset, to 32.8% registered by the French overseas Region of Réunion. […]

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Internal and external security” “

“A strategy on the external dimension of the space of liberty, security and justice”: that’s the title of the new Communication of the EU Commission that defines the fundamental sectors of cooperation between the Union and third countries in the field of “human rights, institutional consolidation and good governance, immigration, asylum and control of the […]

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Strategies for Africa” “

One of the priorities of the European Union takes the form of cooperation in development for Africa. At the end of an extraordinary meeting between the EU and the African Union (AU), the European Commission adopted a legislative proposal with the title “EU Strategy for Africa”. It defines an action plan in support of the […]

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