Legislating more effectively in the EU” “

The President of the European Commission Josè Manuel Barroso presented last week the new (revised) guidelines of the Executive for improving the evaluation of the impact of EU legislative proposals. He said “the Commission takes very seriously the need to reduce bureaucracy and unnecessary legislative measures” and intends to give “greater coherence, quality and self-limitation […]

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Consultation on economic migrants” “

A public audition held by the European Commission on “economic migration” was held in Brussels on 14 June. Participants in the audition – a follow up to the Green Paper on the management of economic migration by the EU presented in January – included all the parties directly involved: governments, EU institutions, regional and local […]

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Cancellation of the debt” “

“This is not the time to be timid in the fight against poverty”, declared George Brown, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister), following the accord reached by the G7 in London for the total cancellation of the debt of 18 countries. A total sum of 55 billion dollars will be written off by the […]

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Mobilizing minds” “

An appeal to promote “greater investments” in the European universities has been made in recent days by Jan Figel , European Commissioner for education, training, culture and multilingualism, during his first official visit to Italy. The aim, said Figel, is that the Lisbon objectives “be not only on the agenda of Brussels”, but on that […]

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Between faith and culture” “

The official announcement of the journey to Pope BenedICT XVI to Germany between 18 and 21 August to participate in WYD in Cologne came just two months before the start of the event. Meanwhile, the official website of WYD – www.wjt.de – is being filled with information for the participants. Details of the rich programme […]

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Spain: "poverty zero" campaign” “

To put an end to poverty once and for all: that’s the goal of the “Poverty Zero” campaign (www.pobrezacero.org), organized by the Coordination of Spanish NGOs, that demonstrated in the streets of Madrid and some fifty other Spanish cities on 26 June to ask for provisions and measures against poverty in the world. The Conference […]

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England: solidarity with Zimbabwe” “

“The so-called ‘Operation Restore Order’ that the Zimbabwean authorities have inflicted on thousands of vulnerable and poor people is cruel and unnecessary”, said Bishop Crispian Hollis of Portsmouth, chairman of the International Affairs Department of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, expressing the full solidarity of the English episcopate with the bishops of […]

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Scotland: at the G8 meeting in Edinburgh” “

“We have no intention of being accomplices in barbarities and are scandalized by the suffering caused by poverty”: words that Cardinal Keith O’ Brien, archbishop of Edinburgh, will address to the participants in the great anti-poverty event being planned in the city on 2 July on the occasion of the meeting for the foreign ministers […]

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Italy: the identity of the adolescent” “

“The adolescent and the construction of identity – The second cycle of education and formation and the Christian community” is the theme of the meeting of the National office of the Italian Bishops’ Conference for education, schools and universities, due to be held in Grosseto from 6 to 9 July. The programme, which will be […]

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Spain: mixed State-Church Commission” “

“We do not claim that everyone should study religion, but that everyone should be educated according to his/her own convictions”, declare the Spanish bishops, in a communiqué issued on 23 June, in which they announce the setting up of a mixed Church-State Commission to discuss questions that concern the teaching of religion in schools. During […]

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