Ireland: the Catholic Primate on the ‘peace process'” “

“Humility yes, humiliation no”, declared the Primate of the Irish Catholic Church and Archbishop of Armagh, Monsignor Seàn Brady in commenting on the peace process in Northern Ireland and its more recent developments. “I believe that the progress which has been made to date is extraordinary – said the Primate in a press release issued […]

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Spain: ETA terror blasts condemned” “

Bishop Jesús García Burillo of Ávila, together with the whole diocesan curia, have expressed their “profound sorrow for what has happened” and strongly condemned “the explosion of bombs that have completely destroyed a bar in Ávila and caused damage in five other Spanish localities in recent days. The attacks – fortunately without victims – were […]

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On behalf of the young” “

Almost 300 schools with a student population of 154,000 youngsters; 117 training centres with 30,000 young apprentices; 500 parishes; many youth centres with a membership of over 200,000 children and adolescents, to which should be added some 5,000 youths in university hostels and homes and a further 9,000 involved in social promotion and rehabilitation projects: […]

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Work in progress” “

Definition of relations between EU and Turkey; annual budget and financial prospects of the EU; programme of work of the Barroso Commission; a common strategy against terrorism; the war on drugs… all this and more is on the agenda of the Community of the 25, which is experiencing yet another crucial week in its destiny. […]

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How to proceed together” “

“Europe has progressed towards integration in this way for over fifty years, amid successes, goals achieved and new problems. This ‘policy of small steps’ has led to great results. Perhaps there is no other way of proceeding together”. Thomas Jansen , German, with a career in the EU institutions, was until last month head of […]

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Strategy for immigration” “

During the first EU Council of Ministers of Justice and the Interior after the installation of the new Executive headed by Josè Barroso, the European Commissioner for Justice, Liberty and Security Franco Frattini presented the Executive’s major priorities in the sector of immigration for the next five years. There are two fundamental guidelines: first, the […]

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Campaign against land mines” “

140 million euros for the period 2005-2007: that’s the allocation decided by the EU Commission last week, in the course of the meeting that formally adopted the first EU strategy for a world campaign against land mines. Hitherto the EU commitment, though substantial (700 million), had not been inserted in any coordinated action plan and […]

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Conference on climate change” “

The Annual Conference of the UNO on climate change opened in Buenos Aires on Monday, 13 December, in the presence of representatives of 189 countries and over 400 international institutions and non-governmental organizations. On the order of the day: the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions (its entry into force is scheduled […]

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Environment: protected zones in the EU” “

197 animal species, 89 plant species and 205 habitats are comprised in the Nature 2000 network, which includes the protected zones and species in the EU divided into 7 “bio-geographic regions”, to which the European Commission has recently added over 700 natural sites in the Atlantic and continental areas. One of the priorities of the […]

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Un anno per la democrazia” “” “

Un intero anno dedicato ad “avvicinare le istituzioni nazionali ed europee ai cittadini” e per “rilanciare la democrazia partecipativa”. Con questo intento il Consiglio d’Europa ha proclamato il 2005 “Anno europeo della cittadinanza attraverso l’educazione”. L’annuncio proviene dalla sede del CdE (46 Stati membri, 800 milioni di abitanti) di Strasburgo. La decisione è stata resa […]

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