EU inflation rising” “

The latest figures published by Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Commission) on the inflation trend do not make comforting reading. For the 25-member EU, a growth of inflation was registered during May, equivalent to 0.4%, which brings the overall annualised rate to 2.4%. The data for inflation in the euro zone are also […]

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Legislative simplification in the EU” “

The Commission last week adopted a Communication that reviews the current state of the project undertaken by Brussels last year to update and simplify Community acquis. The objectives of the project, still in progress, are the simplification and clarification of the content of EU law, on the one hand, and the reduction of the volume […]

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Plenary of the Committee of the Regions” “

The plenary session of the Committee of the Regions (CR) was held in Brussels on 16-17 June. It was the first after the EU enlargement of 1st May (its effective members now number 317). The main point on the order of the day was the examination of the draft opinion of the CR on the […]

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Comece: statement on the European Constitution” “

“A fundamental stage in the process of European integration”. That’s how the executive committee of COMECE, Commission of the episcopates of the European Community, meeting in Rome on 23 June, defined the new European Constitutional Treaty. A statement signed by the president of COMECE, Bishop Josef Homeyer of Hildesheim, and its two vice-presidents, Bishop Adrianus […]

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Ccee: A symposium between African and European bishops” “

A meeting between African and European bishops to “examine common responsibility for the Church and for their own peoples” and “seek new ways of collaboration, mutual aid and exchange”: these are some of the objectives of the symposium to be held in Rome from 10 to 13 November, on the initiative of the Council of […]

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Beyond Cologne” “

World Youth Day (WYD) was one of the issues discussed at this year’s Katholikentag, the congress of German Catholics, celebrated at Ulm from 16 to 20 June. The question was also testified by the presence of the WYD Cross in the nearby city of Baden-Württemberg during the event. Meanwhile preparations continue to make sure that […]

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Malta: priests from all over the world” “

An international congress on: “Priests, forges of sainthood for the new millennium” is due to open in the cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Valletta, capital of Malta, on 18 October 2004. Some 15,000 bishops and priests have already received an invitation to attend the congress from the Prefect of the Congregation for the […]

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Turkey: bishops received by Premier Erdogan” “

The Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic, Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, officially received the bishops of the Turkish Episcopal Conference for the first time in Ankara on 21 June. News of the event was reported by a communiqué issued by the press office of the bishops, who “expressed to Erdoðan and to his government their best […]

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Great Britain: Jews and Muslims in dialogue” “

Alif and Alef are respectively the first two letters of the Arabic and Hebrew alphabet. Alif-Aleph is the name of the association for dialogue between Jews and Muslims in Great Britain, established at the Foreign Office in London on 21 June, with the support of the Minister for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs, Mike O’Brien, […]

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Old and new obstacles” “

In the countries of Eastern Europe, the scope granted to religious communities by the heirs of State communist atheism (with the conspicuous exception of Belarus) is growing; the larger of these communities are recognized as “traditional religions, i.e. belonging to the history and culture of the country”. In Western Europe, on the other hand, dialogue […]

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