Uniting Europe: The Council of Europe's Unfinished Mission

The Uniting of Europe

International bioethics? The role of the Council of Europe.

Ethical problems relating to medicine and biology cover a wide variety of issues including scientific research, diffusion of new technologies, the doctor/patient relationship, and the allocation of limited health care resources, to mention but a few. Ethical problems are very similar in most countries in Europe. Actually, most health care is provided in similar ways across Europe and there are ...

the protection of national minorities within the council of europe: an analytical review

according to the preamble of the framework convention for the protection of national minorities (which entered into force on february 1, 1998) minority rights are an integral part of fundamental human rights. universal level that taken on great importance in addressing the challenges of minority protection in evolving and increasingly diverse societies. so, this survey has an analytical appro...

The Making of a Mission Field: Paradigms of Evangelistic Mission in Europe

Since the Second World War Europe has increasingly been considered as a ‘mission fijield’. Sometimes it is suggested that this belief could only emerge after the collapse of the colonial empires, efffectively abolishing the diffference between the ‘Christian’ and the ‘pagan’ world. However, this is only partially true. There has always been a strong undercurrent within European churches, especi...

Uniting the Prolog Community

In his article A Wake-Up Call for the Logic Programming Community, published in the December 2007 issue of the ALP Newsletter, the first author raised concerns about the viability of the Prolog programming language in the near future. The article had a pessimistic undertone, but expressed the hope that the current evolution can be reversed by uniting the Prolog community. Now, almost a year lat...