editorial" "

Cancelled words” “” “

The great Molière created, in one of his best known comedies, the famous Tartuffe, who has become a synonym of the impostor in French. Molière’s famous dramatic character once again sprang to mind in reading the draft preamble of the future European Constitution before the unexpected cancellation of any reference to the century of the […]

di Jean-Dominique Durand" "University of lyon " "" "

Press review" "

Dailies and periodicals” “” “

The new terrorist attacks in the Middle East, a week after the Aqaba summit, monopolise the attention of the American dailies, in the aftermath of the declarations of President Bush, who made an appeal to world leaders to help the USA in peacefully resolving the conflict in the Holy Land and in the fight against […]

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European missions in the Middle East” “

In spite of the formal adoption at Sharm-El-Sheik last week of the peace plan for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (the so-called Road Map, presented by the Quartet composed of the USA, UNO, EU and Russia), the violence continues. Over the last few days, over thirty people, most of them civilians, have been killed […]

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Eu in brief" "

The priorities of the six months’ Italian Presidency” “

As the beginning of the next revolving Presidency of the EU (July-December 2003) approaches, the priorities of the Italian government for a crucial six months in the process of European integration are being defined. Institutional reforms: The Convention on the future of Europe will present its draft Constitution during the Salonica Summit on 20 June, […]

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The excuses of the metropolitan Athanasius” “

The Orthodox metropolitan Athanasius of Rustavi, in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, has met the president of the Union of Evangelical Baptists in the country, Malkhaz Songulashvili, and presented him with his personal apologies for having exhorted Orthodox believers, during a television broadcast, to “combat and kill” the members of the minority Churches: Baptists, […]

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Protestant and Orthodox Churches on post-war Iraq” “

The representatives of the various Protestant and Orthodox Churches met in Paris in recent days to discuss the role of the United Nations and respect for international law in the aftermath of the war in Iraq. The meeting took place at the beginning of the work of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches for International […]

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ecumenism" "

World Council of Churches and the "road map"” “

In the view of Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the “road map”, the peace plan worked out jointly by the UNO, USA, European Union and Russia to try to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “is certainly not ideal; it is flawed by its grave absence of details, […]

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information" "

"Green Paper" on the media” “

Concentrations of media, protection of sources are, in the view of Reporters sans frontiers, the two main problems of European information. In this regard, a proposal for a “Green Paper” on media concentration was recently presented by the European Parliament. To review the state of health of European information we interviewed Soria Blatmann , bureau […]

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CONVENZIONE UE: APPROVATO PER CONSENSO IL PROGETTO DI COSTITUZIONE

” “L’ultima plenaria della Convenzione sul futuro dell’Europa ha approvato oggi per consenso la bozza finale della Costituzione europea. Secondo la quasi totalità dei Convenzionali, il testo – unico e senza opzioni – rappresenta un ‘compromesso verso l’alto’ nonché una base di negoziato condivisa in vista dei lavori della Conferenza intergovernativa del prossimo ottobre, chiamata […]

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GIORNATA DEL RIFUGIATO: IN SVIZZERA MONUMENTI ILLUMINATI PER RICORDARE I RIFUGIATI

” “Una luce blu ad illuminare i monumenti più significativi delle città svizzere nella notte del 20 giugno: a Ginevra il “jet d’eau”, a Berna il Duomo, a Zurigo la Cattedrale. È questo, informa l’Organizzazione svizzera per i rifugiati (Sfh) in una nota diffusa oggi, il segno visibile che l’Organizzazione e l’Acnur vogliono portare quest’anno […]

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