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November 2005″ “

4 Eucharistic Celebration officiated by the archbishop of Krakow , Stanislaw Dziwisz, in the city’s Cathedral, on the occasion of the start of the rogatory process of the cause of beatification of the Venerable Servant of God John Paul II. Plenary Assembly of the French Bishops’ Conference (4-9) , at Lourdes. 2005 World Congress of […]

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One of them is lacking” “

The internal market of the European Union is still incomplete; of the four “fundamental liberties” established by the six founding states as the backbone of the European Economic Community in 1957 – circulation of persons, goods, capital and services -, one has so far remained on paper. So work is going ahead in Brussels and […]

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A new strategy for transparency” “

The goal is an open and transparent “common home”. To this end, on Wednesday 9 November, the European Commission adopted the guiding principles for a renewed strategy for the “transparency of the institutions”, to which Commissioners Wallström, Kallas, Hûbner and Fischer Boel all contributed. The main objective, during this phase of impasse of the process […]

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EU institutions: Urban, budget and Reach” “

The European Commission “is studying ways of contributing to the regeneration of the French suburbs devastated by ten days of guerrilla warfare” and marked by social degradation. Funds allocated to the Urban programme, created to support urban regeneration in European states for the period 2000-2006 and so far unused, could be used for the project, […]

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Anti-fraud: seizures throughout Europe” “

The first coordinated operation of the European Office for anti-fraud (OLAF), to which the police forces of various EU countries contributed, to combat counterfeiting, has proved wholly successful. The operation was organized by OLAF and by the General Directorate of fiscal questions and customs union of the European Commission from May 2005 onwards: the results […]

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Civitas: 36 cities against pollution” “

Thirty-six cities are uniting their forces to combat traffic and smog. That’s what emerged from the meeting held in recent days at Nantes, in France, where the annual meeting of the municipal administrations involved in the European Civitas programme, “aimed at fostering the development of alternative solutions to urban transport”, was held. Vice-President of the […]

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International dailies and periodicals” “

“ Pope Benedict has condemned the decapitation of three girl students in Indonesia and prayed that the attack would not produce the further shedding of blood between muslims and christians in the country”, reports a story on the front page of The Catholic Herald (04/11) under the headline: “ The Pope’s fury at the decapitation […]

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Rethinking unity” “” “

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Pavle consecrated the church of the community in Ljubljana on Sunday, 23 October. He did so during a solemn Mass celebrated in the presence of Cardinal Tomas Spidlik, Archbishop Alojzij Uran, metropolitan of Ljubljana, the Apostolic Nuncio in Slovenia Msgr. Abril y Castellò Santos, the President of the […]

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Messaggio per l’Europa” “

Valutazione sul progetto di allargamento dell’Unione europea, a partire soprattutto dal grado di partecipazione dei cittadini europei. Approvazione di due dichiarazioni: la prima riguarda la famiglia e l’andamento demografico. La seconda l’etica e la ricerca scientifica. Ma anche una riflessione sul 40° anniversario del Concilio Vaticano II che ha aperto orizzonti nuovi al ruolo della […]

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Portogallo: congresso nuova evangelizzazione” “

“Il mondo di oggi si presenta turbato e inquieto, incosciente e indifferente”, per questo sono necessarie iniziative di nuova evangelizzazione come quella che si sta svolgendo in questi giorni a Lisbona (5-13 novembre) nell’ambito del Congresso internazionale per la nuova evangelizzazione che coinvolge dal 2003, a turno, cinque città europee (Vienna, Parigi, Lisbona, Bruxelles e […]

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