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		<title>Closer to the EU? Civilian control of the military in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belengongora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 8 July, Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a law giving civilian courts the power to prosecute military personnel who might threaten national security. He insisted on the relevance of this legislation as an essential part in the EU membership talks. Indeed, together with other priorities, such as democracy, the rule of law and freedom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=114&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European socialists ready to vote for Barroso in September according to Jean Quatremer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronique Foulon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his blog Coulisses de Bruxelles, UE, in a post dated 14th, Jean Quatremer points to the Socialist Group who fought against Barroso&#8217;s re-election on the next 16th of July 2009 in the newly elected European Parliament. Socialists would be now agreeing with a vote to take place a fortnight before the second Irish referendum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=106&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re-opening of the Halki Seminary: a step forward for minority rights?</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/re-opening-of-the-halki-seminary-a-step-forward-for-minority-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belengongora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several days ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seemed to hint that the Orthodox Theological Seminary of Halki (Heybeliada in Turkish) may be re-opened in the near future. This issue has received international attention in recent months and might be a positive step forward in EU membership talks. Indeed, the European Union has raised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=95&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worries about the future of the EU</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/worries-about-the-future-of-the-eu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronique Foulon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a simple and rather modest understanding of how things are supposed to work when acknowledging the inseparable link that exist between political decision-making and the economy and vice versa, recent orientations of decisions having been made in different member states of the EU are worrying, and rightly so. This thought might well be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=90&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe is frightened</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/europe-is-frightened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>belengongora</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe is frightened In an article of the Spanish edition of the magazine Foreign Policy, the journalist Ana Carbajosa, analyses an increasingly widespread feeling throughout Europe: fear. Globalisation, terrorism, immigration, social insecurity, climate change and the current economic crisis are making Europeans more and more fearful: “Europeans are frightened” and distrustful of a little promising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=85&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copywrong?</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/copywrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Daly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the British government published its “Digital Britain” report on the future of communications in the UK. One of the many outcomes of the report is to improve enforcement procedures against internet piracy. This recommendation comes in the context of action by other European governments against internet copyright violators, most notably the French Hadopi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=65&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>European citizenship can help deepen democracy</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/european-citizenship-can-help-question-and-a-deepen-democracy-which-is-still-an-unsatisfactory-undeveloped-concept-in-nowadays-western-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronique Foulon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 10th of  June, Andrea Bonnani wrote in his blog Europe, hosted by la Repubblica, that &#8220;è nato il popolo europeo&#8221; (the European people or demos is born). He stressed the fact that European citizens of varied European member states voted as a whole to the extent that the polls in those different countries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=69&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A cynical agenda for more of the same: Barroso&#8217;s letter to the Council</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/an-agenda-for-more-of-the-same-barrosos-letter-to-the-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niccolo Milanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an unprecedented move Jose Barroso has written a letter to the members of the European Council of member states laying out his agenda if he is to be re-elected as Commission President. The letter, addressed to the current Czech president of the European Council Jan Fischer, is available to be downloaded as a pdf from the commission website here. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=59&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter of Iranian Artists in Exile</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/open-letter-of-iranian-artists-in-exile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niccolo Milanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A group called Iranian Artists in Exile have released videos in several language versions of an open letter to the world calling for solidarity with the Iranian people. Here below are the French and English versions for the interest of the readers of this blog.  French   The English language version is below The blog Iranelections09 has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=53&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Niccolo Milanese</media:title>
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		<title>The currency of Latvian pain</title>
		<link>http://alterdemocracy.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/currency-of-latvian-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niccolo Milanese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters the Latvian government have agreed to a series of austerity measures including cutting pension contributions of those still working by a massive 70%, cutting the pensions of old age people by 10%, cutting state sector salaries by 20%, the tax free minimum on income will be abolished, and allowances for parents cut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alterdemocracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8085506&amp;post=41&amp;subd=alterdemocracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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