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• Begs the Question

  
  A Philosopher's Blog — Authority: 129
  Being a philosophy professor , I find it vaguely annoying when people write or say things like “ Referendum begs the question of our future in EU ” or “Rolex ad on Newsweek site begs the question how big is too big.” When people use “begs the question” in this manner, they actually mean “asks the ...
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• EU telecoms: Reaping the digital dividend and costs of non-Europe

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 436
  The 2987th Council meeting, in the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE) configuration from 17 to 18 December 2009 (document 17456/09) , adopted conclusions on the digital dividend (page 22): The digital dividend - Council conclusions The Council adopted conclusions on transforming the digital dividend ...
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• EU ‘deeply concerned’ at sentencing of Chinese dissident (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Copenhagen, Dec 25 (DPA) The European Union (EU) Friday said it was “deeply concerned” at the 11-year prison sentence imposed on Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo for seeking greater democracy.A statement released by the EU presidency in Stockholm called the sentence “excessive” and said it raised concern about ...
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• Sum up of Swedish EU Council presidency 2009

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 436
  Outcomes of the Swedish EU presidency (16 December 2009) is an excellent summary of the state of major European policy issues near the end of 2009, but the presidency web pages offer more detailed materials on the different EU policy areas (Council configurations) for interested readers. The concluding European ...
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• EU Telecommunications Council on post i2010 strategy: Towards a new digital agenda

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 436
  From Santa Claus to the Magi, the European Union’s new digital strategy continues to take shape with the aim to bestow its gifts on the good children of Europe in the years to come. Chaired by Sweden’s minister for communications, Åsa Torstensson, the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council ...
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• Energy and climate in the EU foreign policy: Cooperation beyond the EU borders – Interview with Dr. St. Everts, Former HR Solana’s Personal Representative for Energy & Foreign Policy

  
  ELIAMEP Blogs — Authority: 112
  This year’s Halki International Seminars focused on the role of the transatlantic institutions in helping local stakeholders address security challenges in the Middle East, the Black Sea and Southeastern Europe. In the interview that follows, St. Everts discusses his views on EU energy policy. ShareThis
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• The EU’s view of China

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 523
  Author: Razeen Sally, ECIPE The EU views China with a combination of awe, ignorance, fear, confusion and ambition. It is awed by China’s rise. It is largely ignorant of China. Real knowledge of China, and Asia more generally, is pathetic in Brussels, as it is in all European capitals with the partial exception of ...
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• Yule goat burns, again

  
  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Authority: 156
  Oh the humanity . Or something like that. Heres the cute goat in the town of Gävle, Sweden before the burning started. Maybe theres a Swedish reader or someone who knows more about the local culture who can fill us in on the history of the yule goat. Then they can explain why the goat keeps getting torched ...
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• ACTA as the (Fools) "Gold Standard"

  
  open... — Authority: 546
  Ive noted before that at the heart of the ACTA negotiations there is a con-trick being played upon the world: insofar as the mighty ones deign to pass down any crumbs of information to us little people, it is framed in terms of the dangers of counterfeit medicines and the like, and how we are being "protected". ...
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• Only with America’s Help Can ‘Northern Civilization’ Be Saved: Gazeta of Russia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 674
  For those wondering whether U.S.-Russian relations really have been “reset”, this article from Russia’s Gazeta newspaper should provide food for thought. We must permit our minds to let go of our memories, tormented as we are by past grievances, and understand that only with the United States can the ...
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• Swedish presidency and EU Commission: preparing Digital Agenda

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 436
  In an interview, Åsa Torstensson, the Swedish minister for communications, pointed out the potential for democratic participation through the Internet: IT is a democratic tool (17 December 2009). Torstensson was referring to the Visby Agenda conference on the theme “Creating impact for an eUnion 2015” held ...
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• The betrayal of Gaza

  
  The Heathlander — Authority: 115
  In a report [.pdf] published this week, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Christian Aid and other leading aid agencies decried Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza. The siege amounts, they concluded, to the illegal “collective punishment” of a civilian population, and its effect is to “systematically … [destroy] ...
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• World Briefing | Europe: Russia Faulted on Actions in Georgia

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Russia has failed to fully observe the peace deal that ended last year’s war with Georgia, the chief of the European Union’s monitoring mission, said Wednesday.
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• EU 2020 strategy and future Digital Agenda under work

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 436
  For the time after the i2010 information society strategy, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the strategy for the coming five years. The consultation on the 2010-2015 strategy ran from 4 August to 9 October 2009, and the Commission received 834 responses. The reference documents are ...
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• Unions ‘n’ strikes: looking ahead to 2010

  
  Ren Lavanchy's Blog — Authority: 401
  Asked recently if the TUC was going to organise a general strike after more government talk of pay restraint, a trade unionist replied : “I think the TUC might go and organise a general panic”. They were joking of course, but next year is not likely to bring mass strikes. Even if next year’s Budget brings in ...
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• Letters: Gaza blockade is far from black and white

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The report of the 16 NGOs ( Help end Gaza blockade, aid groups urge EU , 22 December) castigates Israel for banning the import into Gaza of materials urgently needed for reconstruction. Israel has certainly been holding back on sending materials like cement that can be used by the Hamas regime for extending its ...
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• Europe Wants to Divide Jerusalem

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 547
  by Soeren Kern The European Union on December 8 adopted a resolution that for the first time explicitly calls for Jerusalem to become the future capital of both a Palestinian state and Israel. Backing away only slightly from a more controversial Swedish proposal to officially call for the division of ...
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• Peace Now Introduces the ‘Informers’ Hotline’ in Judea, Samaria

  
  Schmoozing with Elya & Ellie Katz — Authority: 425
  by Hana Levi Julian(IsraelNN.com) The leftist Peace Now organization has come up with a new way to lure residents of Judea and Samaria into helping to trap friends and neighbors who might be building a porch or other carrying out other construction on their property – encouraging them to call on a new hotline set ...
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• Peace Now Introduces the ‘Informers’ Hotline’ in Judea, Samaria

  
  Avid Editor's Insights — Authority: 134
  by Hana Levi Julian(IsraelNN.com) The leftist Peace Now organization has come up with a new way to lure residents of Judea and Samaria into helping to trap friends and neighbors who might be building a porch or other carrying out other construction on their property – encouraging them to call on a new hotline set ...
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• As at Auschwitz, the gates of hell are built and torn down by human hearts | Timothy Garton Ash

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A wrenching debate about antisemitism in Polands past leads us, in the end, to ask questions about ourselves Between Hanukkah and Christmas, the sign over the entrance to the Auschwitz extermination camp is stolen . Polish police recover it and catch the thieves, who were apparently carrying out a commission from ...
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