Concordat Watch references
Brazil: AMB statement, 14 August 2009 |
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European Union Accession Treaty (23.9.2003) |
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Archdiocese of Dublin: no defection, 29 October 2010 |
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Poland: notes on complaint to EU about Church privileges |
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Turkish secularism |
Cemal Karakas
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Notes for “Secret costs of papal trips” |
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Près de 4 000 policiers pour assurer la sécurité du pape |
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Notes for Franco's Concordat (1953) |
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EU legal priority |
According to a human rights lawyer European Union laws about discrimination on grounds of religion or belief and on sexual orientation trump national laws: | |
Portuguese Marriage Protocol (1975) |
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Notes for Colombia |
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Public costs for papal entourage, UK 2010 |
The month before the 2010 papal visit to Britain a bit of information leaked out on the costs to the taxpayer for two days' accomodation of the papal entourage. Nothing is known of the costs involved for the other half of the trip. Here are articles from The Tablet and the Daily Mail. | |
State politicians want to cut the millions in subsidies to the churches |
The Catholic and Protestant churches receive almost €460 million in subsidies from the German states ― too much, say leading state politicians and in Der Spiegel they are demanding a cut. They are receiving support from Carsten Schneider, the chief budget expert of the [opposition] SPD group in the Bundestag [federal parliament].
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Update 2010: Discounts for the Church ― EU puts Italy on trial |
Under under intense pressure from both the Italian Government and the Vatican, the European Union Commissioner for Competition dropped the matter twice. However the complainants threatened to go before the European Court of Justice, (the court which in 2007 upheld the almost $1 billion penalty against Microsoft). Now the process against Italy for giving unfair tax breaks to the Church is going ahead. (Italian original in La Repubblica, 24 September 2010) | |
“No such law exists” |
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Notes for “Polish Concordat, 1993” |
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Notes for “Leaving the Church” |
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Notes for Polish Convention (1988) |
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Scratch |
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Notes for �Spain� |
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Vatican's secret tax fund |
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A bureaucratic “miracle” : Confession of a failed apostate |
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The 'Potato Crisis' (2006) |
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Holocaust survivors' letter to the Pope |
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