European Parliament” “

The Commissions of the European Parliament are meeting in Brussels from 11 to 14 November. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Decision to mobilize the Solidarity Fund for the victims of natural disasters (Budgetary Commission, rapporteur: Colom i Naval); · Campaign against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the developing countries: research […]

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Presentation of bids” “

· MEDIA – MEDIA PLUS – Development, Distribution and Promotion (2001-2005) – Implementation of the programme for sustainable development, distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works – Call to present bids 74/2002 – “support for the promotion of and access to the market in the sector of audiovisual festivals”. Deadlines for the presentation of bids: […]

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Turkey" "

No surprise” “

With 34.40 percent of the votes, the neo-Islamic party “Justice and Development” (AKP), led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won the elections in Turkey on 3 November. It was an electoral ballot that renewed 90 percent of the whole Turkish Parliament, composed of 550 seats, and now divided between only two parties: the AKP with 363 […]

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Objective Europe” “

During the first half of 2003 the European Union will be led by the presidency of Greece. If the European Council of Copenhagen on 12/13 December lays down the criteria for the negotiation of Turkey’s membership of the EU, it will thus be Greece that will have to manage the first phase of this negotiation […]

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The process of integration in Europe

Turkey is the first country with a Moslem majority to have requested EU membership. Let’s retrace the fundamental stages in this process. 1964: the European Economic Community gives the go-ahead to the accord of association that enters into force on 1st December of the same year. 18 September 1980: Turkey and the European Community resume […]

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Social Forum" "

An economy for the community” “

“Europe has all the characteristics to enable it to propose itself as a pilot-continent for globalization on a human scale that may give a voice to all the varied expressions of peoples and civil society”. Convinced of this is Luigino Bruni , professor of political economy at the State University of Milan-Bicocca, who will be […]

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Learning democracy ” “

Numbers, diagrams and tables to ‘photograph’ the situation of education in the industrialized world: the recently published 2002 OECD report – “Education at a glance” – provides just such a snapshot. It is full of the necessary data (referring to the years 2001-2002) for reliable comparisons between countries and educational traditions. We take this report […]

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What is the OECD?

Growth and sustainable development, higher standards of life, compatible with financial stability, sound economic expansion, extension of world trade, are – according to article 1 of the Convention which establishing it in Paris on 14 December 1960 and became operative on 30 September 1961 – the fundamental principles of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation […]

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United Kingdom: ” “open to multiculture” “” “

“Basic primary and secondary education available for everyone; the inclusion of all the religions and nationalities”: these are, according to Father Peter Humfrey , national adviser for education and catechesis of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, some of the peculiarities of the British educational system. But in recent weeks the system has […]

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What do Moslems and Jews think?” “

In the view of London rabbi Aba Dunner, general secretary of the Conference of European Rabbis, the most serious problem in England – as also in the rest of Europe – remains that of the violence and fundamentalism widespread among the young. “The government and the various religious authorities ought seriously to address this problem”, […]

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