Fondo rurale per l’occupazione” “

Il Consiglio dei ministri dell’Agricoltura ha raggiunto settimana scorsa a Lussemburgo un accordo politico per la costituzione di un Fondo specifico per lo sviluppo delle aree rurali che dovrebbe permettere l’estensione dell’attività di agricoltori, imprese e industrie e la conseguente creazione di nuovi posti di lavoro. La dotazione finanziaria del Fondo – la cui entrata […]

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Contro la violenza sulle donne” “

La Commissione per le Pari Opportunità dell’Europarlamento ha organizzato settimana scorsa a Bruxelles un’audizione pubblica per fare il punto della situazione relativa alla violenza commessa nei confronti delle donne in Europa. I dati in possesso dell’Unione Europea – seppur incompleti e relativi alla sola Ue a quindici in assenza pressoché totale di informazioni sul fenomeno […]

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Quotidiani e periodici europei ” “

Grande scalpore sta suscitando in Germania la decisione di Schröder di sottoporsi al voto di fiducia davanti al Bundestag con l’annuncio della sua astensione e l’invito del presidente della Spd, Franz Müntefering, ai parlamentari del partito di astenersi anch’essi in modo da far cadere il governo. L’invito ha suscitato proteste all’interno del partito stesso in […]

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Ever more difficult” “

“The political situation in Bulgaria [a country with a population of 7,918,00] is now very complicated, and it’s becoming ever more difficult to see clearly and orientate oneself”, comments the bishop of the diocese of Sofia-Plovdiv, Gheorghi Jovcev, in a snap judgement on the results of the general elections that were held in the country […]

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In search of identity ” “

The summit of the heads of state and of government of the EU, held in Brussels on 16-17 June, represented one of the most critical phases of the process towards continental unity: the heated debate on the Constitutional Treaty intersected with that on the Financial Plans of the 25 and the two questions became, in […]

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Germany: RE put to the test” “

“Religious education facing new challenges” is the title of a document published by the German Bishops’ Conference, and presented with a press release on 24 June. The document “is mainly aimed at teachers of religion, and those responsible for the formulation and specialization of religious education in schools”, says Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the […]

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Spain: mixed State-Church Commission” “

“We do not claim that everyone should study religion, but that everyone should be educated according to his/her own convictions”, declare the Spanish bishops, in a communiqué issued on 23 June, in which they announce the setting up of a mixed Church-State Commission to discuss questions that concern the teaching of religion in schools. During […]

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Italy: the identity of the adolescent” “

“The adolescent and the construction of identity – The second cycle of education and formation and the Christian community” is the theme of the meeting of the National office of the Italian Bishops’ Conference for education, schools and universities, due to be held in Grosseto from 6 to 9 July. The programme, which will be […]

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Scotland: at the G8 meeting in Edinburgh” “

“We have no intention of being accomplices in barbarities and are scandalized by the suffering caused by poverty”: words that Cardinal Keith O’ Brien, archbishop of Edinburgh, will address to the participants in the great anti-poverty event being planned in the city on 2 July on the occasion of the meeting for the foreign ministers […]

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England: solidarity with Zimbabwe” “

“The so-called ‘Operation Restore Order’ that the Zimbabwean authorities have inflicted on thousands of vulnerable and poor people is cruel and unnecessary”, said Bishop Crispian Hollis of Portsmouth, chairman of the International Affairs Department of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, expressing the full solidarity of the English episcopate with the bishops of […]

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