Youth ask for "more Europe"” “

The European Youth Convention (cf. SirEurope no. 27/2002) met in Brussels from 9 to 12 July. In the course of the four days of discussion, the 210 delegates – representing the fifteen member states of the Union and the thirteen candidate countries, including Turkey – debated future EU integration in relation to the interests, concerns […]

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Switzerland: Jews and Catholics for peace” “

A joint declaration to combat terrorism and violence and progress together in the pursuit of peace: the text is the initiative of the Commission of Jewish-Catholic dialogue in Switzerland. “We are very disturbed – says the joint communiqué – by the growing number of violent terrorist attacks of recent months which have occurred just about […]

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Germany: paedophilia, the Church will seek clarification” “

“The representation” of the “individual cases has deeply disturbed me”. “In particular, I am saddened by the suffering caused to the victims”. That’s how Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Episcopal Conference and bishop of Mainz, responded in recent days to an article published in the weekly magazine “Der Spiegel” on paedophilia and priests. […]

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Italy: campaign against thefts from churches” “

From now on it will be more difficult to steal with impunity from churches. Thanks to an agreement between the National Office for ecclesiastical cultural properties of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) and the Command of the Carabinieri for the safeguard of the artistic heritage, more than 150,000 catalogue entries of the databank of the […]

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France: the bishop to holidaymakers, "drive slowly"” “

An appeal to holidaymarkers not to succumb to the passion for speeding and not to drink alcohol before driving has been made by Bishop Georges Gilson of Sens-Auxerre (France). Speed and alcohol – he says – are the main causes of “often fatal road accidents” and are therefore “a sin against oneself and against others”. […]

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Disagreement on the reform of the common agricultural policy” “

To the surprise even of its own staff, the European Commission has grasped the occasion of the publication of the mid-tern review of the EU’s agricultural regime, adopted by the Berlin summit in 1999 and endorsed by Agenda 2000, to present a Communication which calls for a sweeping reform of the CAP, the common agricultural […]

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Fears about the programme for scientific research” “

The text of the sixth framework programme for technological research and development, approved by the Council at the beginning of June, provides for the possibility of the EU financing research projects on stem cells if they conform to the requisite of ‘patentability’ and if the final objective is to improve human health. The governments of […]

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Dailies and periodicals” “

“The euro overtakes the dollar, growth below 3%”. That’s the front-page headline of Le Monde (17/7), which thus hails the euro’s “overtaking” of the American currency, against a general background of the “collapse” of stock exchanges throughout the world. Inside the paper, the front-page story is analyzed at length: “The weakening of the dollar vis-à-vis […]

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EU legislation” “

In the course of last week the following legislative acts and communications, among others, came into force: · Decision no. 1247/2002/CE of the EP, of the Council and of the Commission, of 1/7/2002, relating to the status and general condition for the exercise of the functions of European guarantor of data protection (OGEC L 183/1, […]

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Presentation of bids” “

· COOPERATION – Invitation to present proposals for the co-financing, in 2002 and 2003, of actions of decentralised cooperation in the developing countries. Deadline for the presentation of bids: 28/10/2002. For further information, contact the European Commission, Office of cooperation Europeaid, e-mail Europeaid-cdc@cec.eu.int, or consult the Internet site of the European Commission http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm (OGEC C […]

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