Presentation of bids” “

· EU/LATIN AMERICA – Invitation to present proposals for the “ALAN” Programme of high-level scholarships, for activities realized in Europe and in Latin America. Deadline for the presentation of bids: 21/6/2002. for further information, contact the European Commission at the e-mail address: maria-esmeralda.almeida-teixeira@cec.eu.int, or consult the website http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/tender/index_en.htm (GUCE C 79/17, 3/4/2002); · ECONOMIC, MONETARY […]

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” “United Kingdom: American model

With a rate of unemployment of 5.1% and the number of unemployed regularly falling year after year (reduced by 5,000 last year), the UK seems to enjoy an enviable position. But Britain’s labour market, reformed on the US model during Mrs Thatcher’s years as prime minister, has characteristics very different from those of other European […]

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” “Germany: help for young mothers” “

At a press conference in Berlin on 5 April, German Caritas presented its new online counselling service for pregnant women (www.caritas.de). Billed as an “important link in the network of aid and assistance offered by the Catholic Church”, it is a service that has the advantage of “exploiting young people’s familiarity with the electronic media”, […]

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Caritas Europe asks for international observers” “

“Caritas Europe is regarding with great concern the massive assault by Israeli forces on Palestinian towns and refugee camps in the West Bank and in the Gaza strip”, says a communiqué issued by Caritas Europe in recent days. The press release also condemns “inreservedly the attacks against Israeli civilians” and urges the international community to […]

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Germany: "keeping hope alive"” “

“Whoever continues to act in the spiral of violence, commits evil against God and against man”. With these words, which also provide the title of the statement issued by the German Episcopal Conference in recent days, Cardinal Karl Lehmann commented on the situation in the Holy Land. “This is not the time to attribute blame […]

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France: demonstrations for peace” “

Last weekend, 200,000 people took to streets in France in pro-Palestinian and pro-Jewish demonstrations. “It was impossible to remain silent in response to the problems of recent weeks”, declared François Della Sudda, assistant secretary general of the League of Human Rights, in a statement to SirEurope . “We are deeply concerned by the continuous violations […]

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Moscow: appeal of the Patriarch Alexis II” “

An appeal for every effort to be made to re-establish peace in the Holy Land and for the resolutions of the international community to be respected was made in recent days by the Patriarch of all the Russias Alexis II. On behalf of the Holy Synod, Alexis addressed an official communiqué to the Russian Federation, […]

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Lutheran Federation: letter to Sharon and Arafat” “

The withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories and the cessation of attacks on civilians and properties: these are the main requests in an appeal made by the secretary general of the World Lutheran Federation, Ismael Noko. For the second time in the space of a few days, Noko has written to the Israeli […]

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WCC delegation to Jerusalem” “

“The only possible solution is the end of the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. There is no other way. But more immediate still is the end of every military action”. This is the opinion formed about the dramatic situation in the Middle East by Georges Lemopoulos on his return from a trip to Jerusalem. […]

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” “A possible reconciliation

The lay principle, Christianity and the future of Europe: Is there a contradiction between the need to guarantee the secular State and a Christian presence in the architecture of a Europe that transcends the economic, political and juridical dimension? What possible place is there for Christianity within the civil society of the continent? These questions […]

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