Social Affairs Council” “

The first informal Council of Ministers of employment and social affairs of the Eu was held in Varese on 11/12 July. Two main issues were discussed: labour market policies and the campaign against clandestine work as part of the European Strategy for employment, and the clearer definition of the social dimension in the Lisbon Strategy. […]

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EU in brief" "

Convention: decision to governments ” “

The work of the Convention on the future of Europe has officially ended. It completed the draft European Constitution on 10 July. It will be presented in Rome on 18 July, and will form the basis for negotiations at the intergovernmental conference (Igc) which, from 4 October, will have the mandate of formally adopting the […]

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GMO: fact file” “

On 15 July, the European Commission decided to apply to the Court of Justice of the European Community to challenge France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Austria and Finland for not having adapted their national legislation to implement EU law on the deliberate introduction of Gmos into the environment. The 11 member […]

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biotechnologies" "

Co-existing with GMOs?” “

The debate on whether it is possible to introduce into European agriculture the American model of co-existence between traditional agriculture and genetically modified organisms (Gmo) has entered its acute phase. On the one side, there are those who foresee the risk of ‘de-naturing’ crops, to the detriment of the crops themselves and of the consumer; […]

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Anglicans" "

The stronger challenge of unity” “

Responsible dedication to social work as missionary activity of the Church and ecumenism were the main issues discussed during the general Synod of the Anglican Church, held in the archdiocese of York from 11 to 15 July. The meeting was preceded by a series of tensions between the more innovative wing of the Anglican Church […]

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Paul Ricoeur and "the hospitality of language"” “

“The first obligatory step” that all “the Christian confessions must take” in pursuit of peaceful co-existence between peoples “is that of fully dissociating the name of God from politics” even if “a prerequisite of this is self-criticism in the Christian conscience about everything that implies violence and exclusion”. So said Paul Ricoeur, the great French […]

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Cooperation in development in India and Latin America” “

The administration of the European Commission has succeeded in concentrating aid on the poor and tackling the question of sustainability in the majority of the programmes examined in India: that’s the finding of the European Auditing Court in a document on the efficiency of the Commission’s management of activities of cooperation in development in India […]

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UNIVERSITÀ E CHIESA IN EUROPA: MONS. GIORDANO (CCEE), LA “RETE CATTOLICA” E IL “RILANCIO” DEL DIBATTITO FEDE-CULTURA

” ” La “rete cattolica” che unisce gli atenei del nostro continente, all’Est come all’Ovest, ha un “grande ruolo” da svolgere per “rilanciare il dibattito tra fede e cultura” superando l’attuale “frammentazione del sapere”. Ne è convinto mons. Aldo Giordano, segretario generale del Ccee (Consiglio delle Conferenze episcopali europee), che in una conferenza stampa svoltasi oggi, […]

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CONGO: PAX CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL, “ESTENDERE I MANDATI DELLE OPERAZIONI DI MONUC E ARTEMIS”

” ” “Estendere i mandati delle operazioni di Monuc delle Nazioni Unitwe e Artemis dell’Unione Europea nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo nel tentativo di raggiungere la pace per l’intero Paese”. Questo l’appello contenuto nella lettera, inviata ieri e diffusa oggi, da Pax Christi International a Kofi Annan, segretario generale dell’Onu. Il mandato di Monuc termina alla […]

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PIEMONTE – BURKINA FASO: OLTRE 60 MISSIONI DI IMPRENDITORI PROMOSSE DALLA PASTORALE SOCIALE

” “Oltre 60 missioni di imprenditori piemontesi nel Burkina Faso, una quindicina di agricoltori e artigiani burkinabé ospitati in Italia, venti corsi di formazione a cui hanno partecipato più di 500 piccoli imprenditori locali. Sono alcuni dei numeri del “Progetto Giubileo”, lanciato nel 2000 dalla pastorale sociale e del lavoro piemontese, a cui hanno aderito […]

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