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| Thursday 06 November 2008 |
18:44 - COMECE: “THE DEBATE ON SUNDAY HOLIDAY MUST BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE EP”
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Regret and disappointment are expressed by Father Piotr Mazurkiewicz, Secretary General of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) on the decision of the President of the European Parliament Employment and Social Affairs Commission, motivated by procedural reasons, to vote some amendments put forward by seven Eurodeputies from different parties to include Sunday as a day of rest in the new “Working Time Directive" which is being examined by the EP. In reality, explains the COMECE note, “the amendments will add to the directive’s article 5 a second paragraph according to which ‘the minimal weekly rest must include Sunday’.” Then there is the proposal to “highlight the importance of Sunday holiday for the protection of workers’ health.” “If the European Parliament is taking seriously the point clearly outlined in the directive,” says the COMECE, “it would be logical that it completed the present text with a disposition on Sunday as a day of weekly rest.” Hence, the wish that “the Eurodeputies will make all their possible to include the debate and the vote on Sunday holiday, the foundation of the European social model, in the plenary debate scheduled for next December 16.”
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| 18:44 - COMECE: “THE DEBATE ON SUNDAY HOLIDAY MUST BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE EP” |
| 17:39 - ISLAMO-CATHOLIC FORUM: NASR (ISLAM) TO THE POPE, “LEARNING SOMETHING FROM EACH OTHER” |
| 17:22 - CATHOLIC-MUSLIM FORUM: FINAL DECLARATION (3) |
| 16:56 - CATHOLIC-MUSLIM FORUM: FINAL DECLARATION (2) |
| 16:55 - CATHOLIC-MUSLIM FORUM: FINAL DECLARATION |
| 16:43 - BENEDICT XVI: AT THE MUSLIM-CATHOLIC FORUM, “REGRETTABLE” ACTS AGAINST FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE |
| 15:38 - BENEDICT XVI: AT THE MUSLIM-CATHOLIC FORUM, “TOGETHER FOR THE DEFENCE OF COMMON MORAL VALUES” |
| 13:28 - BENEDICT XVI: TO THE AMBASSADOR OF EGYPT, “APPROPRIATE PLACES OF WORSHIP FOR CATHOLIC TOURISTS” |
| 13:27 - ENGLAND: CALLINGS INCREASING AFTER THE SYDNEY WYD |
| 12:55 - PIUS XII: CARDINAL BERTONE, “EXPLOITATION OF THE CONTROVERSY ON PAPA PACELLI'S ‘SILENCE’” (2) |
| 12:51 - BENEDICT XVI: AT THE MUSLIM-CATHOLIC FORUM, “MEMBERS OF THE ONE FAMILY OF GOD” |
| 11:42 - DRUGS: 2008 EU REPORT, OPIATES ARE THE “CENTRAL” PROBLEM TO BE FACED |
| 11:11 - DRUGS: 2008 EU REPORT, “4 MILLION ADULTS USE CANNABIS EVERY DAY” |
| 10:56 - PIUS XII: CARDINAL BERTONE, "ADMIRATION FOR THE CHURCH OF EINSTEIN", THE ARDEATINE CAVES |
| 10:39 - PIUS XII: CARDINAL BERTONE, “EXPLOITATION OF THE CONTROVERSY ON PAPA PACELLI'S ‘SILENCE’” |
| 10:36 - DRUGS: 2008 EU REPORT, COCAINE USE ON THE RISE |
| 09:41 - WORK: EU PARLIAMENT, A EUROPEAN “BLUE CARD” FOR IMMIGRANT WORKERS |
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