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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Balkans</title>
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	<description>I live in Rumeli Hisari. It is from here, the very edge of the European landmass, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog  as a  Open Society Fellow.</description>
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		<title>Amexica and other reflections on border wars</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/12/amexica-and-other-reflections-on-border-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/12/12/amexica-and-other-reflections-on-border-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US soft power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time not long ago when pro-globalization authors argued that the forces of international economic integration would soon make national boundaries redundant. Recently, others have suggested the opposite: that globalization is making national boundaries, at least those between rich and poor societies, all the more impenetrable. In fact, reality is more complex and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minna Jarvenpaa: Interventions from Bosnia to Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/11/24/minna-jarvenpaa-interventions-from-bosnia-to-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/11/24/minna-jarvenpaa-interventions-from-bosnia-to-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Imperialism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Later this week - on Friday at 3 pm in Haus der Musik in Vienna - ESI and Erste Stiftung will organise a public debate on lessons from internationnal interventions.
One of the panelists, Minna Jarvenpaa,  is an ESI founding member who was already present at our creation in 1999 in Sarajevo.  She is also both a previous and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reflections on Interventions and the EU. Short guide to a big debate</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/11/17/reflections-on-interventions-and-the-eu-short-guide-to-a-big-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/11/17/reflections-on-interventions-and-the-eu-short-guide-to-a-big-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Raj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Think Tanks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slide presentation, discussion and public debate
Friday 26 November Haus der Musik (Vienna), 15:00
The future of liberal imperialism and European foreign policy












Minna Jarvenpaa

Gerald Knaus

Miroslav Lajcak

Rory Stewart












ESI picture story: Liberal imperialism (2003)
In early 2010 Rory Stewart, then professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and myself, a visiting [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Paradise Lost? From Smyrna to Skopje to Berlin (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/31/paradise-lost-from-smyrna-to-skopje-to-berlin-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/31/paradise-lost-from-smyrna-to-skopje-to-berlin-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macedonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the past month travelling through the Balkans (Skopje, Tirana, Pristina, Belgrade) and visiting Sweden, Bratislava and Chisinau. I presented on and drafted texts about a lot of different issues: debates in Greece and Macedonia about identities; debates in Turkey about Turkish Christians and their rights; debates in Germany about Islam and Turks; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>&quot;Multikulti is dead&quot; and other ideas which are bad for the Balkans</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/17/multikulti-is-dead-and-other-ideas-which-are-bad-for-the-balkans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/17/multikulti-is-dead-and-other-ideas-which-are-bad-for-the-balkans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Multikulti is dead &#8211; or is it not? Shop window in Berlin-Neukoelln.
Photo: flickr/Schockwellenreiter, Gabriele Kantel
This is not promising.
A few weeks ago Angela Merkel&#8217;s reaction was to reject the anti-Muslim populism of former Bundesbanker Thilo Sarrazin; later she defended the observation by German president Wulff on German national day that &#8220;Islam is part of German reality&#8221;.
Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The march of Balkan history? – Gerald Knaus 5th October presentation</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/10/the-march-of-balkan-history-gerald-knaus-5th-october-presentation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/10/the-march-of-balkan-history-gerald-knaus-5th-october-presentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 5th October I was invited to the anniversary conference commemorating the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia one decade ago. It was a thought-provoking gathering with a wide range of speakers: Serbian president Boris Tadic, Bozidar Djelic, Mikulas Dzurinda, Vuk Jeremic, Eduard Kukan, George Papandreou, Francois Heissbourg, Goran Svilanovic, Pavol Demes and others.
I also [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>A pledge to Zoran</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/05/a-pledge-to-zoran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/10/05/a-pledge-to-zoran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a fascinating, deeply emotional event: a commemoration gathering in Belgrade, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 5th of October, the day Serbian citizens took their country back from Slobodan Milosevic exactly 10 years ago. The most poignant moment came at the very end, when a visibly moved Greek prime minister, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A name compromise now. Or perhaps never? (Interview in Dnevnik)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/08/16/a-name-compromise-now-or-perhaps-never-interview-in-dnevnik/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/08/16/a-name-compromise-now-or-perhaps-never-interview-in-dnevnik/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macedonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[name dispute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the most recent interview on the ESI proposal on the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece which I just gave to the Macedonian daily Paper Dnevnik. The Macedonian version is online as well. 
Previous press coverage and reactions to the proposal you find here. 
Your proposal was discussed in Macedonia but not in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>IISS, trafficking and stereotypes about the Wild Balkans</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/16/iiss-trafficking-and-stereotypes-about-the-wild-balkans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/16/iiss-trafficking-and-stereotypes-about-the-wild-balkans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As numerous European leaders are looking for excuses to slow down the EU accession path of Western Balkan nations it becomes all the more important to be extremely precise when it comes to describing the problems of the region. How not to do it can be seen by looking at a recent publication by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is really wrong with Bosnia?</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/12/what-is-really-wrong-with-bosnia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/03/12/what-is-really-wrong-with-bosnia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECFR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europeanisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I wrote  on this website that &#8220;recently, some people have argued that there is a possibility of a new violent conflict in the Western Balkans&#8221;.  Let me be more specific here.
Today I was sent an article by Bodo Weber and Kurt Bassuener. There they argue that &#8220;Bosnia is backsliding [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>New wars? A comparison of the Balkans and the Caucasus</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/02/06/new-wars-a-comparison-of-the-balkans-and-the-caucasus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/02/06/new-wars-a-comparison-of-the-balkans-and-the-caucasus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, some people have argued that there is a possibility of a new violent conflict in the Western Balkans. It there anything to this claim, which flies in the face of continued international troop withdrawals from the region?
Let me make the case why these claims are not only implausible but in fact dangerously misleading.
First, if [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is the EU visa proposal anti-Muslim?</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/18/is-the-eu-visa-proposal-anti-muslim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/07/18/is-the-eu-visa-proposal-anti-muslim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/?p=524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me first say that ESI welcomes the recent Commission proposal on visa free travel to the Balkans.  Considering what expectations of progress were only 12 months ago &#8211; looking forward to a year with EU Parliamentary and German parliamentary elections, against a background of enlargement fatigue and a deepening economic crisis &#8211; this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Visas and the Czechs &#8211; savoring success</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/15/visas-and-the-czechs-savoring-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/15/visas-and-the-czechs-savoring-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Bildt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OHR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Half a year ago I wrote on Rumeli Observer about the upcoming Czech EU presidency.
At meetings in December, which ESI had organized in Prague, Czech politicians and civil servants had defined ambitious goals for the Western Balkans in 2009:
&#8220;We are expecting your countries&#8217; applications for membership during our presidency. We have been preparing to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why the Turks could not have built the bridge in Mostar &#8211; reflection on Bosnia</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/03/why-the-turks-could-not-have-built-the-bridge-in-mostar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/08/03/why-the-turks-could-not-have-built-the-bridge-in-mostar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Raj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosnian ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Joseph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Ashdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OHR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

I am currently reading a thought-provoking and entertaining book with a serious  conclusion: Wild Europe &#8211; the Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers by Bozidar Jezernik, published by Saqi and the Bosnian Institute.
It is a book about continuities in approaches to the Balkans. As anthropologist Joel Martin Halpern writes in the foreword:
 &#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepless in Bucharest – Talking Balkans in Vienna</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/04/05/sleepless-in-bucharest-talking-balkans-in-vienna/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/04/05/sleepless-in-bucharest-talking-balkans-in-vienna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Return to Europe - the film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a stressful trip to Vienna, coming here straight from the Bucharest Nato summit, where I had slept through the unique chance of attending an early morning lecture by George Bush (having worked all night to complete and send out a discussion paper on Turkey&#8217;s Dark Side early in the morning). I sometimes enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Peddling ideas around Schuman II (Brussels in January: EPC)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/01/18/peddling-ideas-around-schuman-ii-brussels-in-january-epc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/01/18/peddling-ideas-around-schuman-ii-brussels-in-january-epc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coweb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Rupnik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Batt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the work of a think tank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;. continued from Peddling Ideas Around Schuman I (Brussels in January: Coweb) 
EPC and the future of screening
                 
            Graham Avery        [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The good news problem &#8211; beyond the wild Balkans (Vienna)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/30/the-good-news-problem-beyond-the-wild-balkans-vienna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progress paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[success stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category>

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A presentation in Vienna, some 120 people in the House of Music in the first district of the city. We do something risky: talking about recent ESI research, we present success stories from the Balkans: Montenegro, Bosnia, even Albania.  The event is organised by Erste Stiftung.
Success stories?  In the Balkans? We should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk in Vienna &#8211; Still the Wild Europe? Rethinking the Balkan experience 1997-2007</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/29/talk-in-vienna-still-the-wild-europe-rethinking-the-balkan-experience-1997-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the Balkans heading on the eve of the Slovenian presidency and intense discussions whether there should be an &#8220;Adriatic enlargement&#8221; of NATO in 2008? Do Europeans &#8211; including Austrians &#8211; fully grasp how much the region has changed?
ERSTE Stiftung and ESI jointly organised a public discussion hosted by the Haus der Musik  [...]]]></description>
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