“Missed opportunities and new perspectives” is the title given to the 2006 Annual Assessment on Global Governance published by the Secretariat of COMECE.

Mgr. Noel Treanor, Secretary General of COMECE, expressed his disappointment about the result of the vote in the European Parliament regarding the Regulation on Advanced Therapies.

Congress participants send the following message to the European Union heads of state and government, to the President of the European Parliament, and to the President of the European Commission, who will meet on 25 March 2007 in a formal meeting of the European Council to commemorate the same event.

Some 400 participants from all over Europe will attend. During the meeting, Christians will identify their own key values and confirm those values which have defined the European unification process from its beginning.

Mgr. Treanor, Secretary General, acknowledged the benefits of a uniform procedure for advanced therapies, whilst underlining that ethical issues may not be excluded. He made the following comments.