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Following to the international congress “Technologies and reforms against disabilities” held in Milan last January, Hon. Marco Cappato, member of the European Parliament and Executive Director of the Luca Coscioni Association, submitted last April 10 an oral question to the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Mrs. Viviane Reding. She answered last May 22

Last January 26-27, 2007 the first meeting of the International Congress “TECHNOLOGIES AND REFORMS AGAINST DISABILITIES -Digital and political revolution for “freedom of speech�? and independent living” was held in Milan. Please find copied below and attached the objectives and the programme of the event, along with the final document issued by the congress. Any

Piergiorgio Welby, co-President of the Luca Coscioni’s association, has realised his final will: on the 20th of December 2006 doctor Mario Riccio has ended the sanitarian treatment which kept him artificially alive. The public debate started in September, when Welby sent a video-message to the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, calling for his right-to-die. Suffering from

Last December 18, 2006 the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (7FP) was approved and enforced by the European Parliament and the European Council. With reference to the petiton submitted by professor Piergiorgio Strata after the Rome World Congress (March 2006) and calling the European Parliament for the 7FP to fund research projects on embryonic stem

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Press release by the Luca Coscioni Association Toward the second reading of the European Parliament on the Seventh Framework Programme for Research, the German Liberal Party (belonging to the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, ELDR) has lately communicated its enforcement of the petition to the European Parliament launched by the Luca Coscioni Association and

U.S. Newswire published a press release mentioning Hon. Marco Cappato and his accepting on behalf of the Luca Coscioni Association the International Advocacy Award to be granted next June 10 by the Genetics Policy Institute at Stanford University (California): “WASHINGTON, May 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — Governor Jim Doyle of Wisconsin will provide a keynote address

Commissioners Jan Figel and Janez Poto�?nik assure that both the future European Institute of Technology and the European Research Council will be scientifically free and independent from political influence. Background: Part of the relaunched Lisbon agenda, the European Institute of Technology (EIT) is set to be an important step towards filling the existing gap between

Brussels. Philippe Busquin, a Member of the European Parliament and Former European Commissioner for Research, has signed today a petition calling upon the EU Parliament to allocate EU funds for research on embryonic stem cells for the period 2007-2013 covered by the 7th Framework Programme for Research (7FP) of the European Union. The petition submitted

Nobel Prize-winners, scientists and European politicians support freedom of scientific research in Europe. Brussels. While the European Parliament is discussing the 7th Research Framework Programme, the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research (www.freedomofresearch.org) and the Luca Coscioni Association have launched a petition calling on the European Parliament to ensure that the Seventh Framework Programme