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Christian social service providers need support in joining the EU green transition

Christian Churches and NGOs from EU met last week in Berlin for the 3rd Strategy Conference on Sustainability. The participants called for the support of the German and European authorities for an administrative and legislative framework to prevent the price of social services from rising after the entry into force of the new EU environmental…

May 18, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

EU Commission: 2022 to be the European Year of Youth

The European Commission adopted on Sunday the proposal to make 2022 the European Year of Youth. This proposal will be discussed by the EU Parliament and Council. Europe needs the vision, engagement and participation of all young people to build a better future, that is greener, more inclusive and digital, transmitted the European Commission in…

Nov 16, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Romanian Patriarchate’s Representation to EU: Matić Report amplifies rifts in today’s Europe

The Representation of the Romanian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions transmitted that the Matić Report amplifies division in today’s Europe on issues that, according to the founding treaty of the Union, should be regulated exclusively by each member state. “In stark contrast to the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, which clearly stipulates…

Jun 28, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

A new kind of care for the elderly down on the farm: The Polish model

In Poland, more than 2 million elderly people live in rural areas – many of them alone. This in turn leads to isolation, social exclusion and declining health. Population ageing, migration of young people to cities and structural changes within families are just some of the things that have brought this situation about. To tackle isolation…

Oct 30, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

CROCEU meeting with the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the E.U.

A delegation of CROCEU (Committee of the Representatives of the Orthodox Churches to the European Union) met with Her Excellency, Dr. Karin Kneissl, Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, in Vienna, on the 13 July 2018, romorth.eu reports. During the meeting opinions were exchanged on the priorities of the Austrian EU Council Presidency and other…

Jul 19, 2018Gheorghe Anghel