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22/09/2010
The Far Right in Europe
The far right has made its debut in the Swedish parliament with 20 MPs and 5.7% of the vote. And so most European countries now face the forceful advance of this political trend. The European elections of 2009 witnessed it achieve scores higher than 5% in Member States and 38 of its MPs...
11/09/2010
Turkey: the Strategic Mistake
11th September 2010 marked a major turning point in relations between the EU and Turkey. By way of its Foreign Minister it expressed its rejection of the European offer to discuss together major strategic world issues, demanding prior to this an acceleration in the accession process to the...
30/07/2010
Lessons from Belgrade
On 22nd July 2010 the UN International Court of Justice decided that Kosovo's declaration of independence was in line with international law. Addressed by the UN's General Assembly on Serbia's initiative, the guardian of the international community's law did not however open the doors to the right...
20/07/2010
Europe challenged by Corporatism
Some minority French air traffic control unions have decided to disrupt the European holiday period in contempt of common sense and above all of general interest. The cloud of volcanic ash highlighted how late we were in finalising the Single Sky in Europe. Our skies are now far too small to be...