19/03/2004 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Assembly’s Culture Committee, meeting in the French city of Lille today, has denounced the deliberate destruction of churches and mosques during the outbreak of violence in Kosovo and Serbia. “As with others, I deplore the violence and call for an immediate end to it,” said Spanish senator Lluis Maria de Puig, who chairs the committee. “I am particularly horrified that places of culture are being deliberately targeted. Hundreds of years of history are going up in flames – along with hopes for a multi-ethnic society. While the protection of human life must always come first, I appeal to UNMIK, KFOR and the Serbian authorities to do what they can to protect these buildings and their contents.” An information report by British MP Eddie O’Hara on the protection of Kosovo’s cultural heritage was adopted by the committee.
12/03/2004 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The Sub-Committee on Science and Ethics (of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education) will hold an exchange of views in Paris on 17 March on “Parliaments and the knowledge society” with the participation of Claude Birraux, Chairman of the French Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) and Antonios Trakatellis (*), Chairman of the European Parliament Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA). (*) to be confirmed
12/03/2004 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The agenda of the meeting of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education on 18 March includes approval of an opinion prepared by Majlene Westerlund Panke, (Sweden, SOC) on the Draft Additional protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, on Biomedical Research, and of an information report on Kosovo’s cultural heritage. Members will discuss diaspora cultures (Eleonora Petrova-Mitevska, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", SOC), education for Europe (Ghiorghi Prisacaru, Romania, SOC) and religions and intercultural dialogue (André Schneider, France, EPP/CD). They will also hold an exchange of views with Gottfried Wagner, Director of the European Cultural Foundation. The next day, the committee members will visit the French city of Lille, European capital of culture 2004.