ISLAM IN THE BALKANS

A lack of knowledge

“Every day the stakes are higher in terms of cohabitation and dialogue with the Arab world: we cannot shut ourselves up in fortress Europe; on the contrary, it is the task of men of culture to have the courage to look to the future”, declared SALVATORE BONO , professor emeritus at the University of Perugia […]

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

From Albania to China

In the second half of the plenary session of the EP (cf. SirEurope no.57) held in Strasbourg from 4 to 7 September, MEPs discussed the multilingualism of the institutions, efforts to curb marine pollution, the European social model, the Accord of stabilization and association between the EU and Albania, the crisis in Lebanon, the Middle […]

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Health for everyone

“In some cases the medical treatment of which a patient has a need is more effectively provided in an EU country other than the one in which he/she resides” and so-called “patient mobility” is a right recognized by the European Court of Justice”: that is how the European Commissioner for the health and protection of […]

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Reform of telecommunications

“The current review of regulations relating to the EU telecommunications market is of crucial importance for competition, investments and growth in Europe”, declared the European Commissioner for the information society and the media, Viviane Reding, on presenting to the press last week three studies commissioned by the Executive to examine legislation in the field of […]

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Morocco: against clandestine immigration

The European Union has decided to increase its economic support to Morocco to reinforce the new strategy of the government of Rabat in its efforts to stem the clandestine immigration in transit to the territories of member states. The Commission recently communicated the allocation of a fund of over 30 million Euros, in the form […]

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European TV and radio programmes preferred

The 7th Report on the promotion of European audiovisual works (2003-2004), recently published by the General Directorate for the Information Society and the Means of Communication of the Commission, declares that “European television stations dedicate on average over 60% of their programming time to European programmes and over 30% to works of independent European producers”. […]

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Inflation falling in the Eurozone

Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Community, has published its “rapid estimate” for August 2006, according to which inflation on an annual basis in the Eurozone stands at 2.3%, a slight decrease over the 2.4% registered in July. The rapid estimate of inflation in the Eurozone is calculated on the basis of the consumer […]

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European dailies

“During these 28 days, 932 Lebanese were killed and over 3,000 wounded; the victims among the Israelis are 84 dead and 867 wounded”: the tally of human lives lost or maimed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Lebanon is that of the British writer John Le Carré , who, in the pages of the French […]

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PRIMA PAGINA

11 settembre

L’11 settembre 2001, il mondo è precipitato. Poco più di dieci anni prima, nel novembre 1989, cadeva il muro di Berlino. Il nostro pianeta sembrava riunificato. E in qualche modo lo era. L’attentato al cuore profondo dell’America lo ha messo in evidenza. Se nessuno può più vivere lontano dal mercato mondiale capitalista e sfuggire alla […]

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INGHILTERRA

Trasferite di domenica alcune festività

Il card. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, primate di Inghilterra e Galles, ha annunciato che le festività dell’Epifania, dell’Ascensione e del Corpus Christi non saranno più celebrate durante la settimana, ma trasferite alla domenica. Nelle scuole cattoliche queste festività hanno sempre offerto l’opportunità di spiegare ai bambini alcuni dei misteri più importanti della fede cattolica, prima di portarli […]

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