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"For Sarkozy the newcomers of the Central and East Europe like Hungary, Poland or the Czech Republic is as good as the <old Europe>, Western Europe."
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"For Sarkozy the newcomers of the Central and East Europe like Hungary, Poland or the Czech Republic is as good as the <old Europe>, Western Europe."
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An interview with Stanisław Obirek who used to be jesuit between 1976 and 2005. He tells the interviewer about the reasons for his resigning from being a Catholic priest, about his critical opinion on Radio Maryja and the Polish national-catholic government of Law and Justice Party (PiS), about the taboos in the Polish Catholic Church, about his critical opinion on celibacy, further on about his book "In front of God" and about him being agnostic.
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On the Soviet capitives who have often been killked by the Nazis. Also a passage on the Polish captives of Jewish origins who were released from the captivity and must go to ghettos or have been killed immediately.
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"No matter how much we abominate kitsch, this neglecting is that what we are longing for."
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A testimony of an ex Catholic priest - on his feeling of unfullfillness in the convent, need of a dialogue with women and his final decision of leaving the clerical life behind him. The author deals with being stigmatized in the eyes of some Catholics. Leaving the convents by priests seems still to be a tabu in the Chruch.
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The author describes the history of Muslims in Poland, the current situation with many Muslim refugees from Chechnya, Iraque, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Hercegovina as well as Muslim organisation in Poland.
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Among others: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says that children who died unbaptised might still be saved.' Holocaust - For whose Sins? On Priests leaving the Catholic Church worldwide.
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"Sometimes one says that he leaves because he has fallen in love with somebody when he actually is in doubt about God. Or he says about his doubts and is going to become father." "We should talk not only about the sorrow of the ones who leave but also about the sorrow of the ones who stay."
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"I am longing for a woman more than for femininity but that was my choice, " says the Dominican Jan Andrzej Kłoczowski OP. "Even stronger is the need of having own child." What / Which self-abandonment can God require from a consecrated person? What can a priest condemn a woman whom he loves but wants to stay in his convent to a life of a single?
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"Sin is inevitable but everything will be all right." Widzenie XIII, rozdział 27 Translated by Małgorzata Borkowska OSB
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Barbara Majewska - Poszukiwanie Andrzeja W. / Searching for Andrzej W. On the exhibition of Andrzej Wróblewski's paintings in the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Kalina Wojciechowska - Kobiety upadłe / Fallen Women On the CD "Fallen Women. Women as Composers and Performers of Medieval Chant, Arab-Byzantine Chant, Sarband & Osnabrücker Jugendchor, 1998
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It is very difficult for a clergyman to go to a psychologist as he has to admit to himself that he is overwhelmed with his own problems which - in his opinion - does not suit to a spiritual guide.
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Serbia and Montenegro: Charter on Human and Minority Rights and Civil Freedoms
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The Iraq war and the deep divisions that it has caused coincide with the EU’s ongoing process to reshape through the European Convention its institutional architecture and decision-making in the context of enlargement. The CFSP will be the litmus test for the political will of the EU. There can be no progress without commitment of the necessary financial resources. The forthcoming European Council of Thessaloniki on 20-21 June 2003 will be of significant importance for the future of the enlarged EU, as it will make decisions affecting three vital policy areas: First, its institutional architecture reflected in the European Constitution that will be submitted by the European Convention; second, CFSP and in particular its "security strategy" in the post-Iraq era that will submit the High Representative for CFSP; third, the future of the Western Balkans which is an important testing ground of EU’s political will and capacity to handle its vital issues. If the EU fails at this very moment to adopt an efficient institutional structure, there is a real risk of becoming a large economic area of political inertia and geopolitical irrelevance. The Iraq crisis has shown that a successful economic integration cannot be a convincing substitute for addressing security needs. If the answers expected and needed cannot be given by the European Convention and the ensuing Intergovernmental Conference, other avenues and structures will be sought for outside of them.
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The text represents a speech delivered by the representative of the European Council at the opening of a conference organized by the Southeast Europe Association on March 28-30, 2003, at Herceg Novi, Montenegro, entitled “Dialogue on the Future of the Western Balkan Region: Montenegro”. According to the author, the Belgrade Agreement and the Constitutional Charter, laying the basis of the new union of Serbia and Montenegro, were an outcome of Belgrade’s and Podgorica’s free decision and were not imposed on them by the EU, as some observers have claimed. The new arrangement leaves a maximum of powers with the republics. Its functioning depends on the free will of both sides to trustfully cooperate with each other. Putting the new union to live requires an enormous endeavour. A number of important institutions have still to be established and the federal parliament still has to do a lot of legislative work. Out of the many challenges for the near future, the harmonization of the two economic areas with a functioning internal market and a unified tariff system is considered to be the most urgent one. The EU’s process of stabilisation and association is a mayor incentive for Montenegro to proceed in its reform process. Whereas meeting the EU’s expectations means considerable hardship for Montenegro, according to the author, the efforts are worth being made, as the EU is offering the countries of Southeast Europe a clear perspective for integration.
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On 11 May 2003, after three rounds of elections, Montenegro elected its third president in the thirteen-year-long history of its multi-party system. The candidate of the ruling coalition, the former Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanović, won with a majority of 63.3 % received votes. Vujanović comes from the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), the party which since long has dominated Montenegrin political life. The fact that the leading opposition group – the coalition “For Change” – did not manage to agree on a common candidate revealed a serious crisis within the opposition lines. The author analizes the outcome of the elections in terms of its implications for domestic politics and for the future of the newly founded State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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Neue Runde des Dialog-Projekts der Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft Die Zukunft Montenegros nach der Bildung der Staatenunion Serbien und Montenegro Veranstalter: Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft Herceg Novi, 28. bis 30. März 2003 Bericht von Stefan Dehnert, Belgrad
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In the paper, macroeconomic issues and the new economic and institutional system in Montenegro are presented. The first part outlines major macroeconomic changes that happened during the last decade. This is followed by an overview of the current situation. Finally, some key principles of economic reforms and the building of a new institutional system in Montenegro are described.
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