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		<title>The European Crisis We Missed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 17:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, on May 29 2005, French voters rejected the constitutional treaty. The Dutch did the same days later. Politicians and pundits panicked. Had the EU lost touch with the people? Last December, the Union&#8217;s leaders ratified the Lisbon Treaty &#8211; which looked curiously like the constitution. They then set about fighting for influence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Greek Failure And The U.S. Economic Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 17:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a manner all too reminiscent of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s initial dismissal in early 2007 of the subprime loan loss problem, President of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet keeps insisting that the Greek economy constitutes only 2 percent of the European economy. He does so to assure markets that Greece poses no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Europe Ignoring The Outside World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday March 21, an ancient Icelandic volcano erupted, blasting a huge fissure in an ice-field and spreading thick clouds of ash over a large area. My first thought was: &#8220;Cool!&#8221; My second was: &#8220;When is Catherine Ashton flying to Reykjavik to show the EU cares?&#8221; OK, that is untrue. But I bet the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Bank Restructuring Liquidates Bradford &amp; Bingley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission has approved under EU state aid rules UK Government measures granted for the liquidation of Bradford &#38; Bingley. Following Bradford &#38; Bingley&#8217;s split-up and nationalisation of the part containing the impaired assets in 2008, the UK authorities notified a liquidation plan for the bank. The Commission has authorised the measures, because they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Takes The Lead For EU In Reconstruction Of Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Deputy Prime Minister of the Spanish government, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, will attend, on behalf of Spain and the European Union (EU). The international conference to lay the foundations for the reconstruction of Haiti which takes place in Montreal (Canada) on Monday . The 27 Member States have already approved 430 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 facts about the Lisbon treaty everyone should know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lisbon Treaty. You may have heard quite a bit about it recently. Still baffled? Well, here we present some of the main changes that it will bring to the European Union should it be adopted. At the time of writing the treaty has been ratified by 26 of the 27 EU members. Despite the Czech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The EU-UN&#8217;s struggle against discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fight against discrimination: Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and UN human rights chief Navi Pillay welcome stronger co-operation On 14 October a one day expert seminar will explore ways to &#8220;Strengthening EU-UN cooperation in the struggle against all forms of discrimination&#8221;. Hosted jointly by the European Commission and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The need for Europe to get Serious in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/middle_east_and_africa/the-need-for-europe-to-get-serious-in-iraq-9404.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European leaders, having preferred not to talk much about Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, seem fascinated by it once more. As Iraq recovers from civil war it is beginning to look like a good place to make money. It also offers an opportunity for EU security cooperation, especially for those governments that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe to Launch Electronic Toll Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission today adopted a decision setting out the essential technical specifications and requirements needed to launch a European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) Which will enable road users to easily pay tolls throughout the whole European Union (EU) thanks to one subscription contract with one service provider and one single on-board unit. EETS will [...]]]></description>
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