ECUMENISMO: DOPO L’11 SETTEMBRE LE CHIESE CRISTIANE DI FRONTE ALLA SFIDA DELL’ALTERITÀ

Dopo l’11 settembre, “le Chiese cristiane sono chiamate a darsi un colpo di remi. Tutti indistintamente, dobbiamo deciderci a riconoscere il dono e il carisma dell’altro”, acquisendo una nuova capacità di “gestire l’alterità nella diversità” contro “il pericolo di una globalizzazione strisciante”. A parlare è mons. Piero Coda, docente di teologia alla Università Lateranense di […]

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Expert in humanity” “

“Only Your Holiness could have called a meeting like this”. So declared Rabbi Israël Singer at Assisi on 24 January, when he spoke together with other exponents of the world’s religions. His observation was shared by everyone not only as a recognition addressed to the guest, Pope John Paul II, but also as the expression […]

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Presentation of bids” “

· NGO/Protection of the environment – Invitation to submit proposals in the framework of a Community action programme promoting non-government organizations that operate mainly in the field of environmental protection – Deadline for the presentation of proposals: 18/3/2002. For further information, please contact: European Commission, Secretariat, Office BU-9 0/10 B-1049 Bruxelles. Fax: 00322/2969560, or consult […]

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European Parliament” “

The EP will be suspended from 11 to 15 February. The parliamentary Commissions will meet in Brussels from 18 to 21 February. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Human rights and democratization: role of the Union in third countries (Commission of External Affairs, rapporteur: Diez Gonzalez); · European economic situation: report […]

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EU legislation” “

In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Resolution of the Council of 21/1/2002 on “information culture and society” (OGEC C 32/1, 5/2/2002); · Resolution of the Council of 21/1/2002 relating to the role of culture in the construction of the European Union (OGEC C […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

The arraignment of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the international penal tribunal in The Hague, and his trial for “crimes against humanity”, monopolizes the attention of the main international dailies. “An historic date in the slow birth of a world order governed by law”: that’s how Le Monde of 12/2 defines the event and […]

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PE: the go-ahead to the European arrest warrant” “

By a very large majority, the plenary session of the European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg in recent days, approved the two framework decisions on terrorism and the European arrest warrant proposed by the British Liberal MEP Watson. The report on the incrimination of terrorism (484 in favour, 32 against and 34 abstentions) and the report […]

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Duisenberg: the euro’s impetus to European integration” “

The Dutchman Wim Duisenberg, current President of the European Central Bank (ECB), has announced his intention to resign his post on 9 July 2003. Duisenberg’s announcement coincided with the meeting of the ECB’s Executive Council, held exceptionally in Maastricht on 7 February to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on the […]

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No to a second "European Chamber"” “

A year after the appointment of Giorgio Napolitano as rapporteur for the Constitutional Affairs Commission that he himself chairs, the European Parliament has approved the “Report on the relations between the EP and the national parliaments in the framework of European construction”. The document recommends “the extension of the powers of the EP as regards […]

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Turkey: Joint EU and Islamic Conference Forum” “

“Terrorism cannot be justified by any motivation” and the Middle Eastern conflict must find a solution of “two states” in conformity with international law and the resolutions of the UNO. These are the two key points of the final declaration, published on 13 February, at the end of the joint Forum between the European Union […]

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