European Parliament” “

The EP is meeting in plenary session in Brussels on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 November. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Joint discussion – European Council/Future of the Union; · Declaration of the Council and of the Commission. Preparation of the European Council in Laeken on 14 and 15 December […]

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EU legislation” “

The following acts and communications, among others, were adopted in the course of last week: · Decision of the Commission, of 20/11/2001, which extends for the eighth time the validity of Decision 1999/815/EC concerning provisions that prohibit the marketing of toys and children’s articles susceptible of being placed in the mouths of children below the […]

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Dailies and periodicals ” “

“Cloning: up to what point?” (La Croix, 27/11/2001), “Pro-lifers press for a halt to destructive experiments conducted on human embryos” (Catholic Herald, 23/11/2001), “The first results of human cloning call into question its therapeutic use” (Le Monde, 28/11/2001), “Cloned embryos from human cells” (Herald Tribune, 26/11/2001), “The cloning of human embryos arouses condemnation throughout the […]

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Condolences for the victims of the explosion in Rome” “

The European Parliament has expressed its condolences to the Italian government following the gas explosion that ripped apart an apartment block in Rome and caused the death of seven people, and left many injured and hundreds homeless. “I express to you and to the families of the victims – wrote the president of the European […]

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White paper on youth” “

The result of a consultation that for the first time enabled the opinions of those directly concerned to be sounded, the White Paper on Youth has now been adopted by the EU Executive. Addressed to the 75 million young people of Europe and to the competent Community authorities on matters of youth policies, the White […]

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Community Budget for 2002″ “

A green light for the draft budget of the European Union for 2002. On the night between 21 and 22 November the European Council and Parliament reached provisional agreement even on the most controversial chapters in the budget. In particular, as regards agriculture (the sector that absorbs 50% of EU expenditure), it was decided that […]

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Croatia: Zagreb remembers Cardinal Šeper” “

Twenty years have gone by since the death of Cardinal Franjo Šeper, archbishop of Zagreb, president of the Episcopal Conference of Yugoslavia and first prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He died in Rome on 30 December 1981 and in the homily pronounced at his requiem mass, John Paul II thanked […]

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Spain: a congress on the relation between faith and culture” “

“Is it possible to create a new and fruitful synthesis between faith and contemporary culture?”. That’s the question that guided the work of the international Congress “Towards a new Christian culture” held in recent days. Organized by the Catholic University of Murcia (Spain) in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Culture, the congress was attended […]

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Northern Ireland: going to school without more insults and protests” “

For the first time since June the girl pupils of Holy Cross primary school in Belfast arrived in class without having to suffer the shouts of protest and the verbal abuse of the Protestant inhabitants of the district, infuriated by the presence of a Catholic school in their neighbourhood. Over the last three months the […]

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Switzerland: grief for the Crossair air disaster” “

“Once again Switzerland has been struck by a tragic accident”. So write the Conference of Swiss Bishops, the Federation of the Protestant Churches and the Christian-Catholic Church in a joint communiqué issued in recent days to express the “consternation” of the three Swiss Churches for the air accident that caused the death of 24 people. […]

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