March 20, 2007
George Parker writes: The malaise gripping the European Union as it approaches its 50th birthday this week is highlighted in a new poll which shows that 44 per cent of citizens think life has got worse since their country joined...
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March 15, 2007
The European Parliament has heard complaints that the Declaration of Berlin, planned to celebrate the European Union's 50th birthday, is being written in secret. In Greece, our politically hostile but social and culturally friendly -inevitably- neighbor, civil servants have been...
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March 01, 2007
A total of 2.3 billion euros worth of EU grant funds have been allocated to Turkey to support the country’s harmonization process until 2010 within the framework of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance, Dr. Holger Schröder from the Delegation of...
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February 28, 2007
Presenting the Commission's priorites for 2007, Secretary-General Catherine Day said that the EU must focus on meeting the challenges of globalisation to avoid an anti-EU backlash from citizens. Make or break - The EU in 2007 EU-25/27 Watch- No. 4...
February 27, 2007
Should migrants have to do community work? How should new arrivals prove their commitment to citizenship? Join the discussion... Dossier of Tuesday, February 27, 2007; The ruling on the genocide of Srebrenica The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on...
February 26, 2007
Rebecca Bryant in Turkey, Cyprus and the European Division (Rebecca Bryant is assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University and author of Imagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus [London: I. B. Tauris, 2004].) More than three...
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Our guests arrived at 5 to 8 pm. and after talking a bit on soccer, jobs, geography, traffic and weather at 8:29 the eldest brother officially declared why they were there. That took not more than 5 minutes after when...
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February 24, 2007
Reflections on the European relaunch In this Fondation Robert Schuman paper, Hubert Haenel, former member of the Convention on the Future of Europe and president of the French senate's EU delegation, proposes a new approach. The author explains that the...
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February 23, 2007
..........Such good fortune is reflected in opinion polls, including the latest FT/Harris poll, which shows that Spaniards are more confident of their economic future than their French, German, Italian, British and even American counterparts. They are also notably more relaxed...
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February 22, 2007
Some 1,600 British troops will return from Iraq within the next few months, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has told MPs. In the mean time, Denmark to withdraw its troops from Iraq by August, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has...
February 21, 2007
Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility after 9/11: A Handbook for Scholars and Teachers by The Taskforce on Middle East Anthropology The happiest countries in the world..click here for the entire post......
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February 20, 2007
BIA reports that there were 293 cases of thought crime in Turkey in 2006. MetroPoll opinion poll results published in many newspapers today... VIA * Migrants help tolerant Spain boom Ministers reject EU targets for slashing national red tape; EU...
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February 17, 2007
Nine EU member states have signed a declaration to include more 'Social Europe' in the Constitution, nearly two years after French and Dutch voters rejected the text in a referendum, mainly over globalisation fears. Policies challenge 'open Europe' Ségolène Royal's...
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February 16, 2007
The controversy over Israel’s controversial work near Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque risked overshadowing Olmert visit, but the Jewish community dismisses Turkish PM's criticism * Israel, Turkey probe closer ties In the mean time, Cengiz Çandar writes on an exceptional reception for...
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February 12, 2007
Christian Egenhofer, in this Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) policy brief, examines the nature and effectiveness of targets set by the EU in the context of its new energy and climate-change package. * EU undecided over energy 'industrial revolution';...
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January 30, 2007
Andrew Moravcsik of Newsweek says "Europe's leaders aim to revive the constitution, but this time without the potential embarrassment of another messy vote....." EurActiv: Chance for a Real Debate on the EU's Constitution? "Writer and commentator on European affairs Kirsty...
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January 27, 2007
The Cafe Babel article. sorry for the late notice:) Name: Erasmus. Date of birth : 1987. Birthplace: Brussels - the European institutions are rather proud of their baby, which celebrates 20 years in 2007 These are the laudatory terms in...