EU Parliament: Treaties need to be revised. Council should decide to set up a Convention

EU Parliament: Treaties need to be revised. Abolition of veto powers and legislative initiative for Parliament

EU Commission: Von der Leyen at the Vatican for new European Bauhaus today. Audience with Pope Francis tomorrow

EU Parliament: Stefanchuk (president of the Rada), “we hope we’ll be given candidate country status”. Thanks for homing our refugees

Pope at audience: “Don’t touch your wrinkles, they are a sign of maturity”

In today’s general audience, Pope Francis debunked a recurring ‘myth’ of our culture: that of eternal youth.  “Old age is…

Ethiopia confronting famine and Ukrainian crisis. People are starting to stockpile wheat supplies

Some 400,000 people in the Tigray region of Ethiopia are at risk of starvation and death, while the population in…

EU: Commission proposes annual budget of €185.6 billion for 2023. Hahn, “funding to support the recovery”

Council of Europe: “Impact of artificial intelligence on doctor-patient relationship”, report published. Ethical standards needed

Minimum wages: von der Leyen (EU Commission), “new rules will protect the dignity of work”

Minimum wage. Progress in the EU. Schmit (Commission): “We are not imposing it on Italy”

After difficult and protracted talks, a provisional agreement on a new EU directive was reached overnight. Reducing social inequalities, combating…

Cholera emergency in Mariupol. Fr. Oleh Ladnyuk (Salesian): “There are no definite news but the risk increases with heat, contaminated water and unattended corpses.”

“Tens of thousands dead from the cholera epidemic – unfortunately, this is a potentially real scenario for occupied Mariupol. “The…