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		<title>Betraying liberal democratic principles in the EU</title>
		<link>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/10/betraying-liberal-democratic-principles-in-the-eu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the citizens of Ireland will go to the polls to vote for the second time on the Lisbon Treaty, after apparently giving the &#8216;wrong&#8217; answer the first time around.
After agreement was reached in June on the so-called guarantees that are supposed to assuage Irish fears about the Treaty, the EU Presidency confirmed that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brezhnev in Dublin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only the Europeans can decide on the EU&#8217;s future. Timothy Garton Ash wrote in the Guardian of &#8220;the essential grandeur of this project we call the European Union, where nations born in so much blood work together freely in a commonwealth of democracies.&#8221; He is right, but his argument actually works against the Lisbon Treaty, or at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The French? Frankly, I couldn&#8217;t give a crepe about their view of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, it was finally admitted that French farmers had received State subsidies, deemed to be illegal by the EU to the tune of €330m &#8212; half a billion once interest payments and the like are taken into account. The French government has promised to pay it back, following a report which criticised the payments as &#8220;market [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bad news for democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/08/bad-news-for-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Europe, an independent think-tank with offices in London and Brussels, published the fruits of many months of investigation into the EU&#8217;s unwieldy budget and concluded that it was spending more than €2.4 billion a year on a wide variety of efforts to promote European integration. Much scorn is poured on those groups which privately fund [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iceland&#8217;s krona proves the magic wand as Europe ails</title>
		<link>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/07/icelands-krona-proves-the-magic-wand-as-europe-ails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/07/icelands-krona-proves-the-magic-wand-as-europe-ails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland&#8217;s krona is working its magic cure. Well-heeled Japanese tourists &#8211; once a rarity &#8211; can be seen these days sampling halibut at Reykjavik&#8217;s Siggi Hall, or buying Gymur jackets at the 66°North store on Bankastraeti. The krona has fallen by half against the euro since the `New Viking&#8217; trio of Landsbanki, Glitnir, and Kaupthing strayed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Irish Foreign Minister: &#8220;would a dictatorship not be delightfully simple?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[German daily FAZ looks ahead to the second referendum in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty, and quotes Foreign Minister Micheál Martin saying that &#8220;democracies are complex&#8221;, adding, sarcastically, &#8220;would a dictatorship not be delightfully simple?&#8221; He adds that &#8220;it was easier with the introduction of the common market and the euro.&#8221;
The article quotes French President Nicolas [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Germans against bailing out Ireland, poll shows</title>
		<link>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/07/germans-against-bailing-out-ireland-poll-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been suggestions that Ireland will somehow be offered a lifeline in this crisis, if only they show their appreciation of ‘Europe’ and vote in favour of the Lisbon Treaty. It’s important that Irish voters realise there is no appetite among German voters for such a rescue package, which will make it very difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>German Constitutional Court delays ratification of Lisbon Treaty, demanding a law to protect the rights of national parliament</title>
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		<comments>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/07/german-constitutional-court-delays-ratification-of-lisbon-treaty-demanding-a-law-to-protect-the-rights-of-national-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 30 June the German Constitutional Court ruled to withhold approval for the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, demanding a law to guarantee the rights of the German Parliament in the EU decision-making process. (FAZ, 30 June)
A press release from the Court said that the Upper and Lower Houses of the German Parliament &#8220;have not been accorded [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Irish commissioner in Lisbon Treaty slip-up</title>
		<link>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/07/irish-commissioner-in-lisbon-treaty-slip-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/07/irish-commissioner-in-lisbon-treaty-slip-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.free-europe.org/english/?p=8064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As EU leaders anxiously await the second Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty this autumn, Irish Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said out loud what most had only admitted in private: the treaty would have been rejected in most countries had they followed Ireland&#8217;s example and held a referendum on it.
As EU leaders anxiously await the second Irish [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Centralised states bad for economy, study shows</title>
		<link>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/05/centralised-states-bad-for-economy-study-shows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.free-europe.org/english/2009/05/centralised-states-bad-for-economy-study-shows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 11:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[European countries where regions have more powers and responsibilities in terms of taxation, legislation and education policies tend to do better economically than centralised ones, a Swiss study shows. Although the findings do not come as a big surprise, with federalists and economist for a long time arguing that delegating powers from the centre to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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