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		<description>New in euro|topics: the magazine. The magazine contains texts, links, and images on selected key topics, as well as the most important news from the European press.</description>
		<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:53:17 +0200</pubDate>
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				<title>European elections</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Between 4th and 7th June Europeans cast their votes for a new Parliament. As predicted the overall turnout was low. In many countries right-wing parties made considerable gains while campaigning had been dominated by national issues.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/europawahlendossier-2009-06/</link>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:53:17 +0200</pubDate>
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				<title>The new insecurity</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Redundancies at major companies, short-time work, spiralling state debt,<br />
government resignations, falling currencies. Since the collapse of the international financial system, each day has brought more bad news. People worried about their future are taking to the streets all over Europe. ]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/neue-unsicherheit-2009-02/</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Integration</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Europe is becoming increasingly diversified. But crucial questions face society with so many cultures rubbing shoulders. One indicator for successful integration is the number of immigrants who apply for and are granted citizenship. This number is steadily on the rise in Europe. How does multinational cohabitation function from country to country?]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/integration-2009-03/</link>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:10:36 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>The Gaza war</title>
				<description><![CDATA[After the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip at the end of 2008, an unstable ceasefire has been reached since mid-January. The conflict between Israel and Hamas has provoked debate and demonstrations across Europe.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/gaza-2009-01/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>The Gas dispute</title>
				<description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter - and then, to make things worse, the gas was cut off. While Slovakia and Poland considered reopening old nuclear power plants or building new ones, the political leaders of Russia and Ukraine used the energy crisis to reposition themselves vis-à-vis Europe. A look at what was written in the Russian and Ukrainian press.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/gas_2009_01/</link>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:01:42 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Barack Obama</title>
				<description><![CDATA[He has inspired hope worldwide and symbolises the US's tremendous capacity for self-renewal: Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Europe's press watched him very closely both during the election campaign and in the run-up to his inauguration. What are Europeans expecting from the new man in Washington?]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/obama-2009-01/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Financial crisis</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Baffled bankers, bad loans, tumbling stock prices, companies going bust in the US and Europe. All of a sudden there were calls for more state, more morals on<br />
the money market and true values. Is the financial world falling apart? Are<br />
we facing a global recession? And what should a new economic world order<br />
look like?]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/finanzkrise-2008/</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:08:04 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Dictatorships in Retrospect</title>
				<description><![CDATA[In some European countries, like Spain, it has taken some time to address what happened under the former dictatorship. In others, like Germany, this process has already become part of everyday life for many citizens. In Poland information from the archives is being used for political purposes, while in the Czech Republic writer Milan Kundera is having to defend himself publicly. How varied is the approach of European countries to their past?]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/postdiktatur-2008-10/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>The Caucasus: a hot spot</title>
				<description><![CDATA[The most recent military conflict in the Caucasus over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia led to an international crisis in August 2008. What's the significance of this region - now, in the past and in the future? A dossier - with a commentary by the Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych.]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/kaukasus-2008-10/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:31:26 +0200</pubDate>
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				<title>Europe as a literary centre?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[Horace Engdahl, a member of the Swedish Nobel Prize Committee, created a stir recently when he dismissed the literature of the United States as &quot;too isolated, too insular” and ignorant and said Europe was still &quot;the centre of the literary world”. Is there really a European literature?]]></description>
				<link>http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/literatur-2008-10/</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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