- Vatican City, Jun 1 - It is not just the Italian Church which is concerned about Italy's decision to drop its ethical reserve on the issue of tests involving embryonic stem cells that was previously shared with the EU. Now, minister Fabio Mussi is being criticised also by the whole European Episcopate. "We reiterate" an official statement of Comece (Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Communities) reads "that we are against a EU-subsidized research implying the destruction of human embryos". Taking stance in the ongoing debate on the definition of the seventh framework programme on research, "...