Europa, gioventù e mondializzazione” “

Quattrocento giovani dai 18 ai 30 anni, provenienti dai 45 paesi membri del Consiglio d’Europa ma anche da Asia, Africa e America latina, si ritroveranno dal 5 al 9 maggio prossimi per discutere di “Europa, gioventù e mondializzazione”. L’iniziativa è promossa dal Consiglio d’Europa e si terrà nella sede di Strasburgo, con dibattiti, testimonianze e […]

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Rock, jazz e tecno per l’inno europeo ” “

Alla vigilia dell’allargamento, la questione dei simboli diventa di primaria importanza per l’Europa. Nel processo di integrazione, infatti, occorrono dei riferimenti condivisi che traducano in pratica il concetto di “unità nella diversità”. A questo scopo l’Unione sta cercando di valorizzare la bandiera blu con le dodici stelle, l'”Inno alla gioia”, la data del 9 maggio […]

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Quotidiani e periodici ” ” ” “

La crisi irachena, dopo la cattura degli ostaggi e l’uccisione di un ostaggio italiano, monopolizza in questi giorni l’attenzione della stampa internazionale. “Bush di fronte alla crisi irachena: stessa politica e più truppe”, è il titolo di apertura di Le Monde (15/4). Di “scacco” in Iraq parla l’editoriale nelle pagine interne, in cui si fa […]

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The "monster" rears its head?” “

Antisemitism is growing in Europe. The Report of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), presented in Strasbourg on 31 March, in fact attests to a growth of episodes of violence committed against Jews and Jewish communities present in the territory of the Union. The situation has particularly deteriorated in the last two […]

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Christians and the elections” “” “

“Participation in the European elections between 10 and 13 June” is “a vital act of European civic spirit”; “the responsible exercise” of the right to vote “will express our solidarity with the European project”. NOËL TREANOR, general secretary of the Commission of the episcopates of the European Union (COMECE) and director of “Europe Infos”, monthly […]

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Lithuania, countdown” “

After Cyprus, Poland, Malta, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic (cf. Sir nos.14-15-18-20-22-23-24/2004), now it’s the turn of Lithuania to tell of its hopes and fears as it prepares for imminent entry into the European Union on 1st May. Lithuania has a population of 3,700,000 inhabitants, of whom 72% are Catholics, 2.5% Orthodox and […]

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End of divided Europe” “

“A great event, that marks for us the return to a history no longer suffered, but freely created”: that’s how Stefan Delureanu , authoritative Romanian Catholic exponent, defines the “great step” of EU enlargement to Eastern Europe. Historian at the University of Bucharest, student of the Risorgimento at the continental level, great expert on the […]

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Turkey: CEC visit to the ecumenical Patriarch” “

The president of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), the Rev. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, has just concluded an official three-day visit to the ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and his Holiness Bartholomew I (31 March-2 April). Accompanied by a delegation of the European Churches, he was also able to meet with members of the Interconfessional Affairs […]

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Europe: elections to the European Parliament” “

Four ecumenical organizations have published a “brief document for the Churches” in preparation for the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament (10-13 June 2004). The document recalls the questions that are at the centre of the commitment of the Churches and the agencies linked to the Churches in Europe: they include unemployment, social exclusion, human […]

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Germany: debate on the Islamic headscarf in schools” “

The recent legislative proposal presented to the Senate of the Land of Berlin-Brandenburg on the possible general banning of religious symbols in public offices – and hence in state schools – has evoked strong reactions and various pronouncements by exponents of the German Churches. In a press release issued on 1st April, the chairman of […]

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