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• Patriarch Kirill Accuses the Strasbourg Court of Infringing the Rights of Believers

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  Thorbjørn Jagland (1950- ), the Danish-born Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all the Russias believes that the European Court of Human Rights does not take into account the rights of believers in its rulings. “In our view, the Court’s rulings often make a unilateral use ...
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• - 20, and Not Warming Up

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  Snow outside of Moo Moo, a popular Moscow restaurant (on the Arbat, get out of the Filyovskaya Line metro at the Smolenskaya stop, walk to the Arbat and turn left, it’s not far). Frost moved down from the Arctic, more precisely, from the eastern portion of the Arctic region over the Kara Sea. Heavy snowfalls ...
  2 days ago

• Moldova fails to elect president, crisis deepens

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Chisinau (Moldova), Dec 7 (DPA) Moldova’s parliament Monday failed to elect a new president in a critical showdown vote, intensifying a political crisis in the former Soviet republic.A total of 53 MPs in Moldova’s 101-seat legislature voted in favour of candidate Marian Lupu, put forward by the country’s ...
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• France Dropped the Veil: Secularism Recognised Once Again as an Important Component of the French National Identity

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  In a Christian society, the above clothing is acceptable; a veiled face is not. There is room for both modesty in clothing and being identifiable. Reject the extremists on both sides of this issue. Indeed, in most Islamic societies, women do NOT veil themselves. Don’t let the loud loony fringes on either side fool ...
  2 weeks ago

• Orthodox and Catholics Intend to Develop Unified Strategy in Building Dialogue with the EU

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  Last Tuesday, in Brussels, the first working meeting between the heads of mission of the Orthodox churches in the EU and Fr Peter Mazurkiewicz, the General Secretary of the Commission of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (COMECE) took place. “Both parties noted the importance of the historical moment ...
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• Patriarch Kirill Opposed the Decision of the Strasbourg Court to Ban Crucifixes from Italian schools

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev (1946- ) of Moscow and all the Russias Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow and all the Russias expressed his solidarity with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in regards to his opposition to a recent court ban on the display of crucifixes in Italian schools. “The Christian ...
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• Giant Panda and Eurosphere

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  Does the Giant Panda exist? It may be a conservation reliant endangered species, but few would doubt its existence. How about the Eurosphere, aka European public sphere, or a small part of it, the Euroblogs? Euroblogs exist: Bloggingportal.eu aggregates 487 of them. Joe Litobarski does not doubt that there ...
  3 weeks ago

• Van Rompuy and Ashton jobs: State of the European Union?

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Czech EU mysteries explained

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  Is the Czech Republic a constructive and contributing member of the European Union, or still lost in Europe after prolonged Soviet occupation and Communist rule? EU citizens have been mystified by Czech happenings in 2009. Czech president Vaclav Klaus long resisted signing the ratification of the EU Lisbon Treaty, ...
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• On Euthanasia and Crosses in the EU

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  Socialist Deputy Manuel Valls (1962- ) (centre) of the French Assemblée Nationale (the lower house of the legislature), sponsor of pro-euthanasia legislation in France. Deputies of the French Assemblée Nationale rejected a bill proposed by Socialist deputy Manuel Valls, which advocated the establishment of ...
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• EU’s future ─ reflections to think about: Wolfgang Münchau & Felipe González

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  A weak Commission and egoistic member states, or something better? What has the future in store for the European Union? The diverging trends of global challenges and national solutions confound Wolfgang Münchau in his column (in German) Europas Comeback (Financial Times Deutschland, 24 November 2009), but he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Key word of European integration: Solidarity

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  If asked about the key word of European integration and the European Union, my answer is “solidarity”. I don’t employ it as a term of social policy, or limit it to aid between richer and poorer member states or regions, or call for help in the face of terrorist attacks or natural or man-made disasters, or as ...
  3 weeks ago

• BBC on ECR Group leader Michal Kaminski ─ Britain in EU

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  In Britain, the decision of the Conservative Party to leave the mainstream group of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament in order to set up the anti-integrationist European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group continues to cause debate because of the Tories’ choice of political ...
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• I’ll be Home for Christmas!

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  A Christmas Homecoming (Norman Rockwell, 1948). This is an interesting painting. The people who Mr Rockwell used as his models were his familiars; in fact, the fellow with a pipe facing the embracing couple is the artist himself! On the left, the elderly woman in the old-fashioned dress is Anna Moses (“Grandma ...
  4 weeks ago

• Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens Believes that a Threatened Ban Against Crucifixes in Italian Schools is a Dangerous Precedent for all of Europe

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  Archbishop Ieronymos Liapis (1938- ) of Athens and all Greece, First Hierarch of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece Archbishop Ieronymos Liapis of Athens and all Greece considers a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg banning crucifixes in Italian schools a dangerous precedent for ...
  4 weeks ago

• World Beat: Europe’s Wild East

  
  The Balkans Project — Authority: 91
  World Beat by JOHN FEFFER | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Vol. 4, No. 46 Europe’s Wild East The traffic circles in Tirana, the capital of Albania, are a free-for-all. There are no lanes. There are no signs. There are no rules. On a visit to Tirana several days ago, I drove into the swirling chaos with all ...
  4 weeks ago

• Russian Orthodoxy is Spreading Rapidly

  
  Voices from Russia — Authority: 440
  A chateau in Épinay-sous-Sénart, the town where the new MP seminary is located. This is not the seminary building itself, but, it’s in the same town. I wished to give you an idea of this Parisian suburb… yes, it’s rather chi-chi. However, it’s not a McMansion in Syosset, Englewood Cliffs, or Crestwood in ...
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• Interview with Ditmir Bushati

  
  The Balkans Project — Authority: 91
  Ditmir Bushati Member of parliament, Tirana, Albania November 2009 I have been the director of a think tank here in Albania, European Movement, which I chaired until a few months ago. The focus of the think tank is to improve the quality of debate on the European integration process. It analyzes different aspects ...
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