The Secretary General of COMECE Fr Piotr Mazurkiewicz welcomes the decision made public today by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO). “Obtaining a patent for embryonic stem cells goes against European patent law. This confirmation by the European Patent Office is a sensible decision and an...

On 8th November, the 66-foot yacht Dignity chartered by the US-based group Free Gaza and carrying twenty-seven activists on board sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip. It braved choppy seas and defied an Israeli naval blockade to call attention to Israeli sanctions against the Hamas-controlled territory and to bring in a...

Barack Obama achieved what some analysts had doubted until the very last moment: he was elected 44th president of the United States of America after a brilliant campaign that outclassed, outgunned and outmanoeuvred his not-so-maverick rival. There is little doubt that America’s new president-elect, known in some circles...

From Obama, there is a lot to hope. He is the best that could have been chosen for America, the world and the Middle East ; For America, he is clever, coloured (black AND white) and economically and socially knowledgeable. Clever, he listens, thinks before acting and is able to chose the best solutions for the...