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<title><![CDATA[EU Democracy Promotion in the European Neighbourhood: Political Conditionality, Economic Development and Transnational Exchange]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How effective and relevant is European Union political conditionality for the promotion of democracy in third countries? This article reports the results of a panel study of 36 countries of the East European and Mediterranean neighbourhood of the EU for the years 1988&mdash;2004. The analysis shows robust and strong effects of EU political conditionality on democracy in the neighbouring countries if the EU offers a membership perspective in return for political reform. Absent the offer of membership, however, EU incentives such as partnership and cooperation do not reliably promote democratic change. The analysis controls for economic development and transnational exchanges as two alternative potential causes of democratization. Although economic and geographical factors have an impact on democratization in the European neighbourhood as well, EU political conditionality remains a significant influence.<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Attitudes toward Eliminating Income Inequality in Europe]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this paper, we seek to understand why attitudes vary among individuals regarding the issue of income distribution in European Union member states. We believe that the issue of income inequality is a potentially significant political cleavage that may have an important influence in meaningful ways in European politics. Rather than focusing on the national context to explain variation in citizen attitudes toward income inequality, we control for national context and explore the relative influence of various individual-level characteristics in shaping how Europeans think about the distribution of income in their countries. We assess how individuals' political attitude, economic self-interest, and general attitude toward society affect how they think about income equality in their own society. To test these propositions, we devise a series of hypotheses that are tested in an ordered probit model using data from the 2000&mdash;1 wave of the World Values and European Values Surveys. It is our contention that the way people think about income inequality in their society is largely a product of the ideas that they hold about politics and society, and not principally a product of their economic self-interest.<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shifting Europe's Boundaries: Mass Media, Public Opinion and the Enlargement of the EU]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This article demonstrates that public attitudes towards EU enlargement are strongly affected by exposure to the mass media. It reveals `priming' effects by showing that media exposure affects the standards by which individuals evaluate the accession of potential candidate countries. To gain a more refined understanding about media effects on enlargement attitudes, we analytically separate three different factors that underlie EU enlargement support for a given candidate country: its economic performance, its state of democracy and its perceived cultural `match' with the EU. Employing an experimental design, we probe the media-induced effects of these factors on EU enlargement attitudes.<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Drivers and Brakemen: State Decisions on the Road to European Integration]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This article investigates the effect of public opinion, ideology, and political security on state decision-making on economic integration within the European Union (EU). Although leaders may have objective preferences based on projected economic effects and party ideology, they often face domestic constituencies with different views on increasing European interdependence. I argue that leaders with higher political security are able to discount adverse public opinion and to pursue their own preferences. Where leaders feel their political life may be in jeopardy, they stake out positions closer to prevailing public opinion. I test this hypothesis using a series of ordered probit models, and I conclude that even modest gains in political security dramatically increase the likelihood of a leader pushing strongly for economic integration.<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Powerful explosions at ammunition dump rock Sofia, nearby villages]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A series of powerful explosions at a munitions dump near Sofia rocked the Bulgarian capital Thursday morning, causing no fatalities but wreaking material damage and considerable local panic.<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Turkish ruling AKP to present its defence in court]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ANKARA, Turkey -- It is the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) turn to make its case Thursday (July 3rd) before the Constitutional Court, a...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Macedonian election commission rejects latest complaints]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[SKOPJE, Macedonia -- The State Election Commission (SEC) rejected on Wednesday (July 2nd) lingering complaints related to the recent parliamentary el...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transparency International in BiH rejects Dodik's blackmail accusations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- Transparency Internationalâ??Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) issued a statement Wednesday (July 2nd) reject...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ukraine: No safe haven for refugees]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lema Susarov, an ethnic Chechen, and a citizen of the Russian Federation, has been detained in Kyiv remand prison awaiting extradition to the Russian Federation since July 2007<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR500062008&lang=e]]></link>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[France:  Recording interrogations is not enough - more safeguards needed for rights of detainees]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International welcomes the coming into force in France, on 1 June, of the provisions of the law of 4 March 2007 which make it compulsory to video- and audio-record interrogations by investigating judges and in police custody<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slovakia: NGOs joint open letter on the occasion of the second reading of the draft new Schools Act at the Slovak National Council]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We, the undersigned group of non-governmental organizations committed to promoting equality of Roma children in realising the right to education in Slovakia, write to you on the occasion of the second reading of the new Draft Act on Upbringing and Education (the Schools Act) by the Slovak National Council<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Spain: Constitutional Court reiterates need for effective investigation of all allegations of torture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court on 14 April to order the judicial investigation into allegations of torture made by Alberto Videma Morillas to be re-opened, on the grounds that the initial investigation was not effective<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410082008&lang=e]]></link>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Union - Central Asia: The human rights aspects of the strategy must be fully implemented]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the European Union -- Central Asia summit, which begins today, Amnesty International is urging both sides to demonstrate a serious commitment -- which so far has regrettably been lacking -- to implement without further delay the human rights component of the strategy<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UK: Time to abandon the policy of 'deportation with assurances']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On 9 April 2008 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales gave its judgment in two key cases concerning the UK government's policy of 'deportation with assurances': that of a Jordanian national, Abu Qatada, and those of two Libyan nationals, referred to for the purposes of legal proceedings in the UK as 'DD' and 'AS'<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR450042008&lang=e]]></link>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slovakia: NGOs call on Slovakia on International Roma Day to address discrimination of Roma in education]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Slovakia: NGOs call on Slovakia on International Roma Day to address discrimination of Roma in education<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR720032008&lang=e]]></link>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[OPEC president warns no end to oil price rises]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[...  the falling dollar. Khelil, who is Algeria's minister of energy and mines, told Algeria times  ...  combat food- and oil-based inflation and with Europe no longer taking up the slack amid  ...  International Energy Agency said. Reuters PARIS - European automakers have put on a brave face  ...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>6 Jul 2008 14:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. and Czechs to sign radar deal despite opposition]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[...  says will protect the United States and European allies from threats from ''rogue states'' such  ...  it will aim its nuclear missiles at central Europe if the shield is deployed. The United  ...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>6 Jul 2008 14:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thomson Financial UK at a glance share guide - weekend]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[...  billion pounds pension fund penalty under new EU rules - Observer * Etihad Airways set  ...  investors in Northern Rock file complaints with European antitrust regulators, who are looking into the  ...  of around 150 pence a share), Avis Europe (U.S. counterpart issues a profits warning), Earthport  ...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>6 Jul 2008 14:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[4.5 magnitude quake shakes Aurora Province, Manila]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[...  is tapping foreign experts in South and Western Europe, Canada, Asia, and New Zealand to identify  ...  pose a problem. abs-cbnNEWS.com PARIS - The European Union is to send a mission of  ...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>6 Jul 2008 13:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hamas straining under U.S.-Israeli force]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[...  those living in Gaza. When Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon evacuated all the Jews from  ...  to produce vegetables and flowers for the European market, giving Gaza a real chance economically.  ...  emigrate to the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe or other Middle Eastern countries did so  ...<script language="javascript">document.write("<img width=1 height=1 src='http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/tracking_pixel.asp?tool=feed_free&prov=&cat=politics&cat2=Europe&kw=&ip=38.103.63.16&ref='>");</script><BR>Brought to you by <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com' title='Add free content to your site and blog.'>Feedzilla.com</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>6 Jul 2008 13:55 GMT</pubDate>
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