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• Europe’s Foreign Policy Guide Passes Along His Compass

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Javier Solana, 67, after his final news conference as European Union policy chief outside his office in Brussels on Monday.
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• Europes 1788 moment | David Marquand

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The EU must look to late 18th-century America for the kind of debate it needs about its future It is hard to think of a more telling example of the British medias propensity to get the wrong end of the stick than the hue and cry over the two latest additions to top-level EU officialdom. Herman Van Rompuy, the new ...
  9 hours ago

• Ukip leader faces insurance firm queries

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Peer says he had no personal knowledge of dealings involving bribery allegations with Costa Rica Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the wealthy insurance broker who became leader of Ukip at the weekend, is facing fresh questions about bribery allegations against his company. Documents show that his firm of Lloyds brokers, ...
  12 hours ago

• Transatlantic transactions, part 1 | Simon Head

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Watch the debate unfold as Chris Patten, Brian Urquhart and Bill Bradley discuss the state of US-European relations The London-New York conference, What Now? Europe and North America in a Disordered World , held at University College London over the weekend of 21-22 November, was the second in the UK sponsored in ...
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• Military News Update

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 488
  Officials with the European Union Naval Forces are confirming Somali pirates have hijacked a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States. Military leaders believe that Afghanistan’s Logar Province, which is south of Kabul, is a critical region in the country. The 57th annual Christmas ...
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• EU ACTA Analysis Leaks: Confirms Plans For Global DMCA, Encourage 3 Strikes Model

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  The European Commission analysis of ACTA’s Internet chapter has leaked, indicating that the U.S. is seeking to push laws that extend beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and beyond current European Union law (the EC posted the existence of the document last week but refused to make it publicly available). The document ...
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• Building Blocks Towards an Asia-Pacific Union

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 491
  NAU Resistance | Nov 30, 2009 By Dana Gabriel Although some may have viewed President Barack Obama’s recent Asian trip as uneventful and perhaps unsuccessful, he appears to have recommitted to the principles of globalization as the answer to the world’s economic woes. Obama declared his intentions for the U.S. ...
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• With Contagion Risk Back On The Table, Will PIIGS (Spreads) Fly?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  The chart below, courtesy of CreditTrader, demonstrates that the sovereign credit spread between BRICs and PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain: the Eurozones weakest legacy links) continues converging. The market is now fully expecting the next risk flaring event to occur deep within the bowels of ...
  14 hours ago

• Chinese Stimulus Creating Industrial Overcapacity

  
  Breakbulk Industry News — Authority: 428
  Massive stimulus-funded expansion despite the worst economic downturn in recent memory is creating a juggernaut of industrial overcapacity in China, according to a study released last week by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. The study, prepared with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, says China’s ...
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• Oracle-Sun: Senators and Software CEOs Weigh In

  
  The VAR Guy — Authority: 505
  From Washington, D.C., to Silicon Valley, senators and software industry CEOs are pressuring the European Union to make a decision on Oracle’s proposed buyout of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL open source database. Here’s the latest chatter, including a letter from Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile to the EU. As you ...
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• Bjorn Lomborg’s “The Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank” hopefully will not be the tone-giver of the aimed for COPENHAGEN CONSENSUS.

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 485
  Our website dealt already with the topics brought forward and the persona of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish idol of the American right. We keep wondering who actually supports his activities – could it be that the support comes just from pay by lobbying-for-business-interests media like The Wall Street Journal, that hired ...
  16 hours ago

• Who won in Ukraine? Bandits | James Marson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The Orange revolution aim of a democratic, western economy has failed; the losers are the Ukrainian people As Ukraine approaches its first presidential election since the Orange revolution in 2004 , disappointment runs deep. A recent survey shows that 75% of Ukrainians believe the leaders of the street protests, ...
  16 hours ago

• New Maritime and Fisheries Commissioner

  
  Embassy of Greece in Poland Press & Communication Office — Authority: 125
  (GREEK NEWS AGENDA) President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso unveiled on November 27, the members of the new Commission. Ruling PASOK deputy Maria Damanaki was nominated European commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries , a key portfolio with particular interest for Greece, where ...
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• Does Dubai Matter? Ask Ireland.

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Presumably the rulers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi are currently locked in negotiations regarding the exact terms that will be attached to a “bailout” for Dubai World. We’ll never know the details but if, as seems likely, the final deal involves creditors taking some sort of hit (perhaps getting 75 cents in the ...
  17 hours ago

• Can the euro zone survive Greece?

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 124
  Wolfgang Munchau, co-founder and president of Eurointelligence , has raised an uncomfortable prospect for investors in Greece. In a Financial Times column today, the long-time Europe commentator argues that Brussels may not be willing to bail Greece out if it were to default on its debt à la all-but sovereign ...
  17 hours ago

• Swiss minarets: is Europe following the Arabs down path of self-pity and xenophobia? | Michael White

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Europe and the Arab street are both grappling with a fast-changing world where Asia is becoming more important for the first time in centuries Reading about the Swiss electorates unexpected vote to ban the building of minarets I thought not just of Nick Griffin and how pleased he must be this morning ("Switzerland ...
  18 hours ago

• Ethics and law of Swiss minaret ban

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 432
  First, a few thoughts on how we should try to approach difficult questions concerning freedom of thought, conscience and religion. The general understanding in Europe has been that there are universal rights. In Europe the secular state does its best to guarantee that the rights of all are respected, as long as they ...
  18 hours ago

• A REMINDER – COPENHAGEN LOOK TO CHINA: The Cleantech Forum in Beijing – December 2-3, 2009 – just before the Copenhagen meeting – may throw light on what China and world business can do if they agree to work jointly. Some say that THE RACE TO REINVENT T

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 485
    http://cleantech.com/cleantechforum/beij… WE POSTED THIS ORIGINALLY ON NOVEMBER 6, 2009 AND POST THIS REMINDER BECAUSE OF THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF CHINA’S PLACE AT THE NEGOTIATION’S TABLE IN COPENHAGEN. Cleantech Forum Beijing. The size of China’s green stimulus program is historically ...
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• Tymon Smith Reviews Saracen at the Gates by Zinaid Meeran

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 432
  Verdict: carrot Carefully balancing hilarity, romance and poignancy, Meeran paints a convincing portrait of a world of fluid identities, rigid customs, crazy lesbian punks and sex-slave traders. A fast-moving, wholly modern romp of a novel that hopefully marks the beginning of a promising career, this is one of the ...
  20 hours ago

• EU Lisbon Treaty into force 1 December 2009

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 432
  The Lisbon Treaty enters into force Tuesday, 1 December 2009. The consolidated (readable and updated ) versions of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) , were published in the Official Journal of the European Union 9 May 2008 (OJEU 9.5.2008 C 115), and they ...
  21 hours ago

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