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• Mozambique May Fail to Reach Planned Sugar Production

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Mozambique may not reach the 2009 projected sugar output despite the increase in production of the commodity, the state-run Agricultural Promotion Centre (CEPAGRI) said on Friday. CEPAGRI said sugar output in the third quarter was 163,885 tonnes, a significant increase from the second quarter which was just 39,186 ...
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• Council of Europe Resolution Will Regulate Right to Conscientious Objection

  
  The United Families International Blog — Authority: 432
  The Council of Europe is currently debating a new draft resolution that would make a women’s right to abortion legally superior to a doctor or health care provider’s conscientious or religious objection to such procedures. The new resolution, entitled “”Women’s access to lawful medical care: the problem of ...
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• Turkey’s shifting diplomacy

  
  War in Context — Authority: 505
  Turkey’s shifting diplomacyBy Alastair Crooke, New York Times, November 28, 2009While the United States and Europe have been struggling to find a path forward in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Afghanistan and Iran, the strategic ground upon which their assumptions about the region rest has begun to shift ...
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• EU Commission: financial services appointment blow to Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Fears that new commissioner will seek to regulate hedge funds and overhaul banking, insurance and investment regulation A former French foreign minister was today put in charge of the ambitious campaign to regulate Europes markets, banks, and financial services industry – an appointment likely to trigger acute ...
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• The Dane with green energy for Europe | Jakob Illeborg

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Europes new climate commissioner was instrumental in building Denmarks green credentials, despite its regressive government She said too much when she congratulated Lykke Friis , who is taking over her job as climate minister of Denmark. "I am looking forward to working with you from Brussels," Connie Hedegaard ...
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• Lord Pearson elected head of UKIP

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 151
  Congratulations to Lord Malcolm Pearson, new leader of England’s UKIP party. Last night I posted a video of the former leader of UKIP blasting the EU parliament and rightfully so. Lord Pearson is just the man to help British Railways find the tracks they left so long ago. From BBC Lord Pearson of Rannoch has ...
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• China Sets Emissions Reduction Target

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  China will cut its “carbon intensity” or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, reports the Wall Street Journal. This follows the U.S. pledge to cut GHG emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050, ...
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• Simon Busuttil: [Against] Recognition of same-sex marriages

  
  Dr In?. Patrick Attard: Library of Articles on Gay-Rights in Malta and Beyond — Authority: 139
  Press Release: 26.11.9 entitled: EU-wide area of freedom, justice and security is the next big EU project – Simon Busuttil MEP - Resolution calls again for compulsory solidarity in immigration. Simon Busuttil MEP, EPP coordinator in the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs welcomed the ...
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• European Union Names New Leadership

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 153
  The European Commission’s new 27-person line-up included Olli Rehn of Finland in a key role overseeing monetary affairs.
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• Power and Herman Van Rumpoy

  
  Constant Conservative — Authority: 139
  The European Union finally has a President. His name is Herman Van Rumpoy and he hails from the confusing state of Belgium. In the linked article , Paul Belien chronicles the negative development of this particular politician (as well as including a most useful primer on Belgian politics). In the mid-1980s, Van ...
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• Barroso II Commission proposed

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 431
  President-elect José Manuel Barroso has proposed his second Commission , including the posts: IP/09/1837 Brussels, 27 November 2009 President Barroso unveils his new team José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, today announced the portfolios responsibilities for the next Commission. The ...
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• SWIFTly signed ─ Long term damage? (Updated)

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 431
  The “war on terror” has been a sorry saga of expediency overriding truth and the rule of law. Have the governments of the EU member states learnt anything? Perhaps not, if we look at the Council agenda for Monday. Brussels Blogger has sounded the alarm regarding the plan of EU member state governments to sign ...
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• EU Files Responses To ACTA Internet Chapter

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 719
  The European Union has filed its comments to the ACTA Internet chapter. While the existence of the document has been made public, the document itself has not.
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• Geert Wilders: ““We Already Have Far Too Much Islam in the Netherlands and Europe”

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 151
  Thursday, November 26, 2009 Thanks to GOV “We Already Have Far Too Much Islam in the Netherlands and Europe” by Baron Bodissey Since today is Turkey Day, it’s only appropriate to post a few news items about Geert Wilders and his proposed close encounter with Turkey. All of the articles below were ...
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• Van Rompuy and Ashton jobs: State of the European Union?

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 431
  Few questions have attracted as much comment in the Eurosphere as the (s)election of Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton to the new top jobs of the European Union under the Lisbon Treaty. Between deep despair, vitriol and angelic official optimism, few emotional notes have been missed. Is there any sense in adding ...
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• SGS Statutory Services Belgium To Inspect Offshore Wind Energy Installation

  
  Renewable Energy Sources — Authority: 145
  SGS Statutory Services Belgium becomes Authorized Inspection Organization (AIO) for the Certification of Belgian Offshore Installations for the Production of Electrical Energy from Renewable Energy Sources Wind power is gaining more importance in the quest for renewable energy sources. More and more wind parks are now ...
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• Europe brought to notice human rights violations in Belarus

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 138
  On November 19-20 in Tallin (Estonia) and Helsinki (Finland) a Belarussian human rights advocate, expert of the Humanitarian Technologies Agency (Minsk), Denis Hil made a speech. The subject of the meeting was a presentation of the report about problem of faith right violations in Belarus, reports center "The Other ...
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• Polite sugggestion to the Dubai sovereign that creditors of Dubai World not be bailed out

  
  Willem Buiter's Maverecon — Authority: 605
  The markets today were in a bit of a tizzy because the Dubai World Group, a holding company owned 100 percent by Dubai’s government, and Nakheel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai World, imposed a debt restructuring and debt service standstill - failed to perform on their debt or, in ordinary if not legal language, ...
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• Nigel Farage reprimanded for criticising new EU foreign

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 151
  
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• The Impact of Social Computing on the EU Information Society and Economy

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 558
  Ignatia reports , "The European Commission JRC (Joint Research Center), Institute for Prospective Technological Studies released last week at the EU Ministerial Conference on e-Government a comprehensive report on social and economic implications of Social Computing [aka Web2.0, social media]." The 138 page report ...
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