Warsaw welcomes the Council of Europe and the young” “

Warsaw is making its final preparations for the Council of Europe’s summit of heads of state and of government, planned for 16-17 May. The meeting, the third of this kind in the history of the Council of Europe, has various objectives. The first is to “verify that the activities of the Council of Europe respond […]

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Petitions to the European Ombudsman increase” “

“Citizens have greater confidence in the EU institutions; the tendency to defend one’s own rights is growing; petitions to the Ombudsman are increasing, a sign that citizens’ appreciation for this institution of the Union is being consolidated”, says Nikiforos Diamandouros, European Ombudsman, who presented his annual report on his office’s activity as “civil defence counsel” […]

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Working hours in the EU: the position of Parliament ” “

The European Parliament meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg from 9 to 12 May voted its support for the report presented by Spanish MEP Alejandro Cercas on the draft Directive regarding the organization of work in the EU. The EP, adopting a position different from that hitherto taken by the Commission, asks EU member states […]

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Study on the over-50s” “

The European Commission recently published the results of a survey on the conditions of life and work of European citizens over the age of 50. The study – called Share, which analyses in 372 pages the data collected on a sample of 22,000 over-50-year-olds in 11 EU countries – is divided into three main chapters: […]

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Unemployment rate” “

There are both encouraging and discouraging aspects of the situation of unemployment in the European Union. Eurostat – the EU statistics bureau – has published the figures relating to March 2005, according to which the unemployment rate in the Euro zone is equivalent to 8.9% of the workforce, a tenth of a percentage point higher […]

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Revival of the Lisbon Strategy” “

The European Commissioners jointly approved last week a document asking the member states to respect the date of 15 October 2005 as the deadline for the preparation and publication of national plans of reform for the revival of the Lisbon Strategy on growth and employment. The plans form part of the legislative process necessary for […]

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Assistance in third countries” “

The last informal meeting of the “Group of senior administrators of member countries of the EU for consular cooperation” (COCON) has drafted the final proof of a common European brochure aimed at informing EU citizens on the services of consular type provided by the European Union in Third Countries, especially in the case in which […]

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International dailies and periodicals ” “

“ Yes or no to the referendum. Our readers have the last word” is the banner headline in LA CROIX (11/05) which, after having variously commented in previous numbers on the debate going on in France on whether the European Constitutional Treaty should be approved or rejected, decided to leave space for the paper’s readers. […]

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Dialogo e verità ” “” “

“Le Monde” del 2 maggio scorso ha pubblicato alcuni significativi estratti di un dibattito tra l’allora cardinale Joseph Ratzinger e il filosofo italiano ateo, Paolo Flores d’Arcais. (I contenuti del confronto sono stati ripubblicati negli stessi giorni anche dal bimestrale italiano MicroMega, ndr). Quel dibattito, che si è svolto il 21 settembre 2000 a Roma […]

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Se si guarda indietro… ” “

Il 60° anniversario della fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, oltre che dai leader mondiali riuniti a Mosca il 9 maggio scorso (vedi Sir n.35/2005) è stato ricordato anche in diversi Paesi europei dalle varie Chiese locali. Riportiamo quanto avvenuto in Germania, Austria e Olanda. GERMANIA. Con una celebrazione svoltasi a Berlino l’8 maggio, la Chiesa […]

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