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	<title type="text">English Blogactiv Posts - EU Blog Platform &#187; External Relations</title>
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	<updated>2010-03-19T17:04:00Z</updated>
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			<name><![CDATA[cem]]></name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Some news regarding Turkey II]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-19T15:02:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-19T15:02:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[nbsp;http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?m&#8230;
&#8220;Hanligil believes that a city can change with sports and started his journey in Hakkari, where there are almost no social and sport activities for youth.&#8221; I agree with him. Sports is a powerful tool indeed. The turkish government supports sports activities in order to help the young people to integrate better into society, but [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Robert Cutler]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Stocks ride out Erdogan offensive]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-19T12:36:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-19T12:36:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s recent moves to weaken institutionally the two principal centers of resistance to the conservative-populist rule of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) have met with little resistance from the country&#8217;s stock markets, buoyed by positive trade figures and upgrades in Turkey&#8217;s sovereign debt ratings.
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			<name><![CDATA[Stanley Crossick]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Chinese hard-line security policies will lead to social unrest]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-19T00:02:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-19T00:02:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I’ve just come across a speech by Yu Jianrong on 26 December 2009.  Professor Yu is director of social issues research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and advises top leaders – clearly an insider.  What he said is disturbing – and surprising.  It is rare for someone of Yu&#8217;s official standing directly to [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Letters to the EurActiv editor]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Defending Tibet means defending an endangered culture as well as EU’s core values]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-17T18:40:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-17T18:40:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sir,
10 March has a double significance in the history of Tibet. On that day in 1959 the Dalai Lama fled the Chinese occupation.
On March 10 2008 Tibetan monks took to the streets of Lhasa protesting Chinese oppressive policies. The Chinese authorities brutally suppressed the uprising. Until today, there has been no independent investigation of those [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Letters to the EurActiv editor]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Reflections on Macedonia’s name]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-17T13:28:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-17T13:28:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sir,
Regarding &#8216;EU-Macedonia relations&#8216;:
First off, the reason FYROM was blocked from NATO was because the country applied for membership as &#8216;Macedonia&#8217; and NOT as FYROM. Applying as &#8216;Macedonia&#8217; and not as &#8216;FYROM&#8217; is what violated the 1995 agreement, which the media is largely ignoring.
Secondly, in response to the former Green MEP Angelika Beer&#8217;s comment about &#8220;the [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Huib Riethof]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Obama Health Care Reform is at a Tipping Point. For Europe, too]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-17T01:38:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-17T01:38:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The historical struggle in Washington about Health Care Reform went mostly under the horizon of the European mainstream press, lastly.  One understands why. The procedure got stuck, last autumn, in the dark alleyways of US decision-making on the f…
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			<name><![CDATA[Stanley Crossick]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Heavy-handed propaganda alienates Europeans from China]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-17T00:21:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-17T00:21:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The following interview appeared in Global Times on 15 March 2010:
Editor&#8217;s Note:
China constantly complains of being misperceived by the West, but how much of that is China&#8217;s own fault? Do Europeans still see China through an ideological lens, or does China fail to present itself in a way acceptable in the modern world? Global Times (GT) [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name><![CDATA[Stanley Crossick]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Copenhagen: a tale of ‘undiplomacy’ (continued)]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-15T17:47:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-15T17:47:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yesterday’s post reported on the non-attendance of Premier Wen Jiabao at the small leaders’ meeting on 17 December.  Wen’s explanation of what happened was the same as previously reported in the Chinese media, except that the latter said that the meeting was held by the US.  Wen did not repeat this.  It’s hard to understand [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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			<name><![CDATA[Stanley Crossick]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Chinese yuan: currency manipulation?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-14T22:32:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-14T22:32:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Writing in BusinessWeek on 12 March, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said global economic growth would be about 1.5% higher if China stopped restraining the value of its currency and running trade surpluses.   “We should not be afraid of what the Chinese might do if we pressure them to stop this currency manipulation,” Krugman said.
Krugman [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name><![CDATA[Stanley Crossick]]></name>
                                         <uri>http://english.blogactiv.eu</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Copenhagen: a tale of ‘undiplomacy’]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-14T17:14:00Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-14T17:14:00Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This morning in Beijing, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao explained at his press conference what actually happened in Copenhagen on 17 December 2009 on the eve of the UN Climate Change Conference, which gave rise to criticism of Chinese behaviour and even allegations of arrogance.  It is remarkable that this is the first official version of [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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