Corte di Giustizia” “

La Corte di Giustizia delle Comunità europee, con sede a Lussemburgo, ha riaffermato l’importanza di garantire la protezione della vita familiare e la libera circolazione anche ai cittadini di uno Stato extracomunitario sposati con un cittadino comunitario (sentenza della Corte nella causa C-459/99, “Mouvement contre le racisme, l’antisémitisme et la xénophobie” contro Stato belga). La […]

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editoriale" "

Sentinelle del dialogo ecumenico” “

Giovanni Paolo II ha testimoniato ancora una volta la sua tenerezza e la sua paternità ai giovani di tutto il mondo: nella grandezza della sua fede non ha avuto timore di rivelare la sua fragilità fisica. Questo stare con loro senza rincorrere alcuna moda giovanilistica ma piuttosto mostrando la fatica e la forza dell’anziano lo […]

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17th WYD" "

"Sentinels of the morning"” “” “

The 17th World Youth Day is now in full swing. Over 200,000 youth are due to meet the Pope at 5.00 pm, local time on 25 July. Below we present some brief comments by Cardinal Lehmann and Msgr. Lalanne and the testimonies of some young people who have arrived in Toronto from Europe. A small […]

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"alternative" holidays” “

Some 10 million elderly people in Italy don’t, or rather can’t, go away on holiday during the summer months; many of them are poor and sick. They, as well as prison inmates and the needy, were remembered by the Pope in his Sunday Angelus address, speaking from Castelgandolfo, where he was spending a brief period […]

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” “Widening horizons” “

The European Union, with its “Youth Programme”, promotes formation through an international volunteer service: young peoples between the ages of 18 and 25 may spend a period of volunteer service in another country for a determined period, normally 6 or 12 months. Some of the youngsters involved in the programme have told us their experiences. […]

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The EU defends pluralism” “

The President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, sent a message to both Chambers of the Italian Parliament on 23 July to request as soon as possible the issuing of a “systematic law aimed at regulating the whole field of communication” according to the principles of pluralism and impartiality, necessary in a democratic society. […]

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European legislation” “

Subsequent to the Protocol annexed to the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997 and the “Green Paper” of the same year (cf. the previous page), EU legislation on information and communication has been prolific. The main legislative measures are as follows: · Directive 97/66/EC of the EP and the Council, of 15/12/1997, on the treatment of […]

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The applause of the Catholic weeklies” “

Even if “he does not explicitly cite it”, Christianity is the “source” to which the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi referred, in his first message addressed to both Chambers of the Italian Parliament on pluralism and impartiality of information. So say the 140 Catholic weeklies and their press agency, promoted by the […]

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Citizens in first place” “

“I don’t think that the reports of the Convention’s work make entertaining reading”, yet “it seems to me important that European citizens should not lose interest in what’s happening. What is at stake in their personal future”. So says Valéry Giscard d’Estaing , president of the Convention for the future of Europe, in an interview […]

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Agenda 21 still incomplete” “

The world summit on sustainable development is due to be held in Johannesburg in South Africa from 26 August to 4 September. Ten years after the world conference on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro, it will evaluate the implementation of the so-called Agenda 21 programme. The summit’s official agenda has still to be […]

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