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"We cannot fail to call ourselves Christians"” “

“Towards a European constitution?” This is the question that a European conference in Rome proposes to answer. Promoted by the Office for the university pastoral service of the vicariate of Rome, in collaboration with the Federation of the Catholic Universities of Europe, the Commission of the episcopates of the European Community and the national Service […]

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Building the future together” “

The fundamental rights of the European peoples do not include that of “amnesia”: starting out from this provocative remark, Cardinal Paul Poupard , president of the Pontifical Council of Culture, stressed the need to “create a genuine and not merely superficial or bureaucratic unity between the European peoples”. The occasion for his remarks was the […]

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” “Coordination is lacking” “

The General Affairs Council of the Union failed at its meeting on Monday 17 June to reach a compromise agreement on the problem of clandestine immigration. France, Luxembourg and Sweden opposed the adoption of paragraphs which would have introduced the option for the EU to suspend future aid or accords of cooperation not yet stipulated […]

di Gian Andrea Garancini – Brussels" "" "

” “The EU against illegal immigrants

The main preparatory documents of the European Union in the current year on the campaign against clandestine immigration are as follows: – 27/2/2002, Council of the European Union, Presidency, “Proposal for a Global Plan for the campaign against clandestine immigration and the trade in human beings in the European Union”; – 11/4/2002, Committee of Permanent […]

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refugees

” “Too many restrictions

The “World Day of Refugees” for 2002, to be celebrated throughout the world on 20 June, will be dedicated to woman refugees. According to UNHCR (UN High Commission for Refugees) there are 22 million refugees in the world, of whom over 75% consist of women and children. The United Nations has used the occasion of […]

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drugs

” “The Saturday night "rave"” “

The international UN-sponsored Day against drug use and trafficking is to be celebrated on 26 June. This annual Day was called by the United Nations to commemorate the signing of the declaration adopted on the same day in 1987, on the occasion of the International Conference against drug abuse and the illegal traffic of drugs. […]

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A European construction site for religious information ” “

“A construction site for religious information”: that’s the image used to evaluate the first year in the activity of SirEurope (a weekly online news bulletin, in three languages) at the meetings of the general secretaries and spokespersons of the European Episcopal Conferences held in recent days respectively at Istanbul in Turkey and near Ljubljana in […]

di Paolo Bustaffa" "" "

polonia

” “L’incontro di due culture

“La reintegrazione politica ed economica nel continente europeo dopo mezzo secolo di forzata divisione rappresenta per la Polonia un’opportunità storica; se gestita correttamente, l’espansione della UE rafforzerà sia gli attuali Paesi membri, sia quelli dell’Europa centrale ed orientale”. Ne è convinta la vicepresidente della Banca europea per la ricostruzione e lo sviluppo, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz , […]

di Alessandro Rondoni e Antonietta Tartagni " ""iI momento" - Forlì" "" "

regno unito

” “Anglicani: finanze a rischio” “

Un altro disastro finanziario, simile ai cattivi investimenti nel mercato immobiliare negli anni ’80, ha colpito la “Chiesa di Inghilterra”. I “Church Commissioners”, la commissione di 33 membri alla quale è affidato il patrimonio finanziario della Chiesa di Stato inglese, ha assistito impotente alla perdita di 80 milioni di sterline (120 milioni di euro), dovuto […]

di Silvia Guzzetti - Londra" "

Francia: vince il partito dell’astensione” “

402 seggi al partito di destra “Unione per la maggioranza presidenziale “, solo 175 seggi, invece, alla sinistra. La Francia ha scelto così la sua Assemblea nazionale dove è assente il Fronte Nazionale di Jean Marie Le Pen, dopo il 18 % circa raggiunto durante il primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali, il 21 aprile. Risultati che, […]

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