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	<title>European Affairs Blog</title>
	<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org</link>
	<description>Reports Transatlantic Developments</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Americans Ask Europeans to Help with Bailout Since They Stand To Benefit</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/09/22/major-questions-face-the-g-7-as-the-proposed-700-billion-bailout-looms-in-us-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/09/22/major-questions-face-the-g-7-as-the-proposed-700-billion-bailout-looms-in-us-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bernanke]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Central Bank]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frank]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[G-7]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paulson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the Bush administration and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pushing to pass the $700 billion bailout through congress this week, the rest of the world sat seemingly unwilling to help in any way.
Roger Cohen, a respected US commentator on foreign affairs with the International Herald Tribune writes, “The world has changed in the past decade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Europe Lose Access to International Space Station Due to Unilateral U.S. Decision?</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/09/16/will-europe-lose-access-to-international-space-station/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/09/16/will-europe-lose-access-to-international-space-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ESA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ISS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Soyuz]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[X-38]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ESA (European Space Agency) faces the threat of having no way to get its cargo and astronauts to the international space station (ISS) because NASA has decided to cut off the U.S. space shuttle early - in 2010 - five years before a new generation of space craft take over the transport duties.
A planned temporary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Raises Georgian Stakes Perhaps End of the Beginning</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/26/russia-raises-georgian-stakes-perhaps-end-of-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/26/russia-raises-georgian-stakes-perhaps-end-of-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kosovo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Merkel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Milliband]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Secessionist]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Solzhenitsyn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As President Dmitri Medvedev formally recognized the independence of South  Ossetia and Abkhazia in a televised announcement, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn must have been rolling over in his grave and thinking, “I told you so.” Solzhenitsyn, who passed away earlier this year, had always argued that Russia had a strong soul that needed to be tamed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Moscow Recognize Rebel Regions As Russian Wedges Inside Georgia?</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/25/will-moscow-recognize-rebel-regions-as-russian-wedges-inside-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/25/will-moscow-recognize-rebel-regions-as-russian-wedges-inside-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recognition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/25/will-moscow-recognize-rebel-regions-as-russian-wedges-inside-georgia/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Russian Duma&#8217;s resolution calling for recognition of the Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is non-binding, so President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have the option of ignoring it. Indeed, they may not wish to stop short of a step liable to stir up secessionist fever in Chechnya and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Cyber-War Attack on Georgia      Spurs Defense Ideas for U.S and Allies</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/25/russian-cyber-war-attack-on-georgia-spurs-defense-ideas-for-us-and-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/25/russian-cyber-war-attack-on-georgia-spurs-defense-ideas-for-us-and-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chertoff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cyber-Warfare]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hacker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saakasvili]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Georgia, reports indicate that organized cyber-warfare attacks continue against key government websites - attacks that appear to be coming from organized groups in Russia.
Suspicions that these attacks - like an even larger cyber-assault last year on Estonia - are offensive tactics orchestrated and used by the Russian government and have triggered fresh thinking in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Incursion Hurts EU Hopes for more Pipelines from Caspian</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/13/russian-incursion-hurts-eu-hopes-for-more-pipelines-from-caspian/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/13/russian-incursion-hurts-eu-hopes-for-more-pipelines-from-caspian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[European Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Energy Security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Moscow&#8217;s use of military force against neighboring Georgia is bound to be a major setback for the West in its &#8220;pipeline war&#8221; with Russia in which the US and the EU are trying to devise ways of getting oil and gas directly to European markets without going through Russia.
Much of these Western hopes center on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side of Globalization: Transnational Crime in Europe</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/06/the-dark-side-of-globalization-transnational-crime-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/06/the-dark-side-of-globalization-transnational-crime-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Mosettig]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Misha Glenny]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/08/06/the-dark-side-of-globalization-transnational-crime-in-europe/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In textbooks, globalization may have its good sides and less-good sides, but there are no redeeming features to the dark side of globalization - organized crime with global reach.
To get a ripe taste of this dark underbelly of globalization and its spread in Europe, dip into the latest book by Misha Glenny, a journalist who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to a Convenient Miscue, EU Can Now Retreat From Biofuels Target</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/07/09/thanks-to-a-convenient-miscue-eu-can-now-retreat-from-biofuels-target/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/07/09/thanks-to-a-convenient-miscue-eu-can-now-retreat-from-biofuels-target/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Food Crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robert Zoellick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst growing criticism over biofuels, over the weekend EU energy ministers discovered that they had misread a policy document from last March that outlined Europe&#8217;s targets for the controversial energy source.  As it turns out, the target - previously understood to have 10 percent of the fuel for cars and trucks coming from biofuels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are European Universities Failing?</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/07/07/are-european-universities-failing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/07/07/are-european-universities-failing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[European Affairs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bologna Process]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ERASMUS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU Integration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[European Area of Higher Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jan Figel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Richard Descoings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Valérie Pecresse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The twenty-first century has proved to be a rude awakening for European higher education. Despite the EU&#8217;s pledge to make Europe &#8220;the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010,&#8221; only two European universities (Cambridge and Oxford) managed to crack the top 20 in a list of the world&#8217;s top universities that the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Factor Rattles EU&#8217;s Plan for Working with US to Confront Tehran</title>
		<link>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/06/27/the-obama-factor-rattles-eu-in-confronting-tehran/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.europeanaffairs.org/2008/06/27/the-obama-factor-rattles-eu-in-confronting-tehran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The difficulties of maintaining a common transatlantic front against Iran were on display last week when European officials suddenly voiced concern about Barack Obama&#8217;s public pledge to open talks with Tehran. A U.S. initiative of this sort, the officials said, could undercut the work they have done to make the Iranians suspend nuclear enrichment as [...]]]></description>
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