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Apr 27, 2009

Swine Flu Outbreaks Prompt EU Travel Warnings

By Valerie Nichols

The European Union’s top health official today urged Europeans to postpone any nonessential travel to the U.S. and Mexico.   With more than 1,600 cases and 103 deaths in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, and with confirmed cases in the U.S. doubling to 40, the World Health Organization worries of pandemic potential while economists […]

European Union
International Organizations

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Apr 25, 2009

UN: United States Must Prosecute Torture Lawyers

By James Joyner

The United States is required to prosecute lawyers who authored memos approving harsh interrogation techniques in possible violation of international law, the UN’s top anti-torture official proclaimed Friday.

International Organizations
Politics & Diplomacy

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Apr 22, 2009

UN Conference on Racism: Another Wasted Opportunity

By Valerie Nichols

Monday’s opening of the UN Conference on Racism met low expectations, fueling criticism that it was simply a rerun of the notorious Durban Conference in 2001.

European Union
International Organizations

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Apr 17, 2009

Pirates Convicted in Stockholm. Music Pirates.

By James Joyner

While the world’s attention has been captured by old-style pirates off the coast of Africa, a Swedish judge yesterday issued a landmark ruling against the other kind of pirates. 

Economy & Business
European Union

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Apr 14, 2009

Gas at Gunpoint: Ukraine’s Energy Power Struggle

By Alexandros Petersen

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko traveled together to Brussels last month to ink a 2.5 billion euro ($3.3 billion) deal with the European Union aimed at holding their country’s state-owned energy company, Naftohaz, to EU market standards.

European Union
International Organizations

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Apr 13, 2009

Election Unrest in Moldova: The View from Europe

By Valerie Nichols

Last Wednesday marked the beginning of continued violent protests in Moldova after elections the previous day saw the Communist party retain its power with 50 percent of the vote.  However, OSCE gave the elections a more or less positive review.  So why a degree of unrest not witnessed since the fall of the Soviet Union?

European Union
International Organizations

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Apr 8, 2009

Nabucco Pipeline: Over Before It Started?

By Alexandros Petersen

Europe’s energy consumers should have breathed a sigh of relief last month, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel reversed field to support EU funding for the Nabucco pipeline and the union earmarked €200 million of seed funding for the project in its coming budget.

Energy & Environment
European Union

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Apr 7, 2009

Bosnia Stumbles on Road to EU

By Borut Grgic

The saying went something like this: After we sort out Kosovo’s independence, the rest of the Balkans’ transition and accession to the European Union will be routine procedure. But now there is a new hurdle in the road, and it’s a high one: Bosnia.

European Union
International Organizations

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Apr 7, 2009

Saving Europe’s Market Economy

By Mario Monti

If the world economy is in crisis, the market economy is even more in crisis. It is seen as unfair, having generated unacceptable inequalities; and inefficient, having attracted massive resources into financial activities whose contribution to the economy is questioned. Yet the world needs an integrated market economy, a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for […]

Economy & Business
European Union

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Apr 6, 2009

EU-Turkey Relations: Energy Talks Needed

By Alexandros Petersen

The White House is touting President Obama’s visit to Turkey as the cure-all that will not only put US-Turkey relations back on track, but help to resolve some of Europe’s energy security concerns.

Energy & Environment
European Union
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Kristina Kempkey

Former Senior Advisor, USAID

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Paul Klimos

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Dana L. Banks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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Rebecca Katz

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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