COMECE is disappointed that the Commission proposal for the 7th Research Framework Programme of the 6 April does not contain any clear ethical limits for jointly funded EU research projects.
The following statement is offered by the COMECE Executive Committee on behalf of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) on the death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II on 2nd April 2005 in Rome.
The COMECE Bishops and the European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, shared an exchange on the role of the Church in consolidating the new European Union in a meeting, which took place during COMECE’s Spring Plenary in Brussels from 9-11 March 2005.