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		<title>Electrolux Expands In North Carolina, To Create 200 Jobs In Charlotte</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Bev Perdue announced today that Electrolux North America, a leader in the manufacturing of home and professional appliances, will consolidate additional positions from locations throughout the United States to Charlotte. The company plans to create 200 jobs over the next four years with a $14 million capital investment in Charlotte. The project was made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Gergoire Calls WTO Report Broad Win For U.S. And Boeing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Chris Gregoire issued the following statement on the panel report released today by the World Trade Organization: This panel report reflects a broad win for the United States and for Boeing, essentially reinforcing what we have long said – that European subsidies to Airbus are far larger than anything the United States does for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Van der Hoeven To Head International Energy Agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Governing Board of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today announced that their 28 members have selected Maria Van der Hoeven of the Netherlands, the former Dutch Minister of the Economy, to be the Agency&#8217;s next Executive Director. Ms. Van der Hoeven will succeed Nobuo Tanaka of Japan effective September 1, 2011. The United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor&#8217;s Gregoire And Malloy On USAF Boeing Tanker Contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Chris Gregoire And Governor Dannel P. Malloy have issued the following statements on the selection of Boeing (NYSE:BA) to build the next refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force “What a great day for The Boeing Company, and for the 11,000 aerospace workers in Washington state alone that will play a role in assembling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North American Stainless Expands In Kentucky, To Create 10 New Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Steve Beshear today joined community leaders and executives of North American Stainless (NAS) to announce the company’s plans to invest $10 million for increased peeled bar production plus $20 million for additional equipment upgrades in its Ghent facility. The expansion is the largest Spanish investment in the United States and is the company’s ninth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. And Netherlands Strengthen Counterterrorism Efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Secretary Jane Holl Lute today joined Dutch Security and Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten to sign a Preventing and Combating Serious Crime (PCSC) Agreement. The agreement will allow for the exchange of biometric and biographic data between the United States and the Netherlands to bolster counterterrorism and law enforcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe, China And The Need For A Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to understand why Europe needs a foreign policy, try to imagine how it looks from Zhongnanhai. I suspect China&#8217;s leaders sit around in that compound next to the Forbidden City, chortling into their tea about the undignified antics of the Europeans who once plundered and humiliated their country. For today the Europeans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama, Midterm Elections And The European Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Boss, You will have read about the US election results with a mix of shock and Schadenfreude. Shock, because it is disconcerting to see an iconic politician lose so much support so fast. Schadenfreude, because, let’s be honest, Obama and the EU have often got on pretty dreadfully. The transatlantic relationship has been strained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU To Co Chair Group On Earth Observations Ministerial Summit In Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice-President Tajani will co-chair the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Ministerial Summit in Beijing. This major international summit will review progress in the building of a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). GEOSS will provide comprehensive and coordinated earth observations from thousands of instruments worldwide and transform the data they collect into vital information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Chris Gregorie Leads Trade Mission To Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Chris Gregoire today issued the following statement on her upcoming meetings with executives at BMW Welt (World) and SGL Automotive in Germany. Gregoire will be leaving for a three-day trip to Germany on Wednesday: I have said many times – the way out of our current economic recession is to create new, living-wage jobs. [...]]]></description>
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