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	<title type="text">English Blogactiv Posts - EU Blog Platform &#187; Enlargement and Neighbours</title>
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	<updated>2010-03-12T14:36:00Z</updated>
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			<name><![CDATA[blogs@ELIAMEP]]></name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Greek-Turkish relations, comment by Dr. Ian Lesser]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-05T16:56:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-05T16:56:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[ShareThis
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			<name><![CDATA[Georgi Gotev]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Was the 2007 enlargement a mistake?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-05T15:31:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-05T15:31:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This question was recently raised at round tables held in Paris and Berlin.
My short answer is no. Bulgaria and Romania are countries with a more difficult transition, but keeping them out for longer would have been a worse choice. I didn&#8217;t say a worst mistake.
Let&#8217;s not forget that Sofia and Bucharest were promised accession on [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Georgi Gotev]]></name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Dutch anti-Islamists to stop EU enlargement?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-05T10:28:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-05T10:28:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Dutch extreme-right Freedom Party, led by controversial  anti-Islamist Geert Wilders, looks set to make large electoral gains at  the upcoming general election in the Netherlands. And it could well become part of the next government coalition.
Even the outgoing government of Jan Peter Balkenende was creating enough obstacles for further enlargement. Dutch opposition [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[cem]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Some news regarding Turkey]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-03T17:18:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-03T17:18:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Turkey is sailing to the European Union slowly, but it is sailing. That is very important. The Finnish Mr Olli Rehn (a friend of the turkish president Mr Abdullah Gül) does know that many politicians in the EU are subjective regarding the negotiations between Turkey and the EU. But he repeated a few times that [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Georgi Gotev]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[EU more generous with Yanukovich?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-02T12:33:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-02T12:33:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I find it weird. Yanukovich, whom the Western press tagged as pro-Russian, is reportedly getting more support from Brussels compared to his pro-NATO predecessor Yushchenko.
In any case, this is a good development, as I see it. the EU has to be more explicit on what it can offer to Ukraine. And if Russia raises the [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Montenegro Open]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Dark times for Montenegrin democracy: Opposition leader attacked on the street, freedom of speech on internet threatened, accusations for not cooperating on regional war on crimes…]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-02T01:19:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-02T01:19:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last few weeks have shown the real face of Montenegrin political system once again. Opposition leader Mr Nebojsa Medojevic was attacked on the street because he publicly spoke about top crime boss in Montenegro, whom he accused to have power over Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. The police arrested the perpetrator, who is said to be family-related to an [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Michael Berendt]]></name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Bank deposit dispute may delay Iceland talks]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-27T14:38:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-27T14:38:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ironic that the European Commission’s positive report on Iceland’s application to join the EU, produced in just six months, should have coincided with the breakdown of talks over the €3.9 billion which the Netherlands and the UK are demanding from Iceland for the collapse of the Icesave bank. It is widely predicted that Icelanders will [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Dániel Antal]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Visegrad+ Energy Summit: Old Power with New Aims?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-25T23:52:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-25T23:52:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The V4+ Energy Summit held in Budapest on 24-26 February ended in a  joint declaration signed by the V4 plus Austria, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, and the perspective member state Croatia (along with Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina). If these countries show such unity as they had in the March 2009 economic crisis summit, it can put [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[cem]]></name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The turkish army saved Turkey’s future]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-25T15:17:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-25T15:17:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As I wrote in my previous article, the ones within the military who planned a coup not only do not represent the turksih army, but also are traitors against the republic and Atatürk. They are traitors against Atatürk because a coup would have only caused huge damage to Turkey. So I do believe that those [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Letters to the EurActiv editor]]></name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Prospects of Ukraine after elections]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-25T13:09:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-25T13:09:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sir,
Regarding &#8216;EU ponders &#8216;what to offer&#8217; to Ukraine&#8216;:
According to the employee of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies of the University of Georgetown (USA), Mr. J.Kulhanek, and the scientific employee of Association of Foreign Affairs in Prague, Mr. M. Larish, after the first round of elections in Ukraine it became clear that [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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