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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Enlargement</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>A Proposal for breaking the Macedonian deadlock: A matter of trust</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/17/a-proposal-for-breaking-the-macedonian-deadlock-the-issue-of-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macedonia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is a concrete and simple proposal how to break one of the most important deadlocks undermining the stabilisation of the Western Balkans. The aim is to bring to an end a situation that has made a mockery of European aspirations of having an effective EU foreign policy in the Balkans, a region of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High noon in Slovenia. A referendum and the future of Balkan enlargement (Bender and Knaus)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/04/high-noon-in-slovenia-%e2%80%93-a-referendum-and-the-future-of-balkan-enlargement-bender-and-knaus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/04/high-noon-in-slovenia-%e2%80%93-a-referendum-and-the-future-of-balkan-enlargement-bender-and-knaus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovenia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Slovenia&#8217;s citizens will cast their votes in a referendum on a question of apparently modest global significance: Are you in favour of a law ratifying an arbitration agreement between Slovenia and Croatia over a minor territorial dispute?
As a matter of fact, in casting their votes Slovenian citizens will be answering a much more [...]]]></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>
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		<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>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>

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		<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>The Stockholm consensus on EU enlargement</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/05/15/the-stockholm-consensus-on-eu-enlargement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/05/15/the-stockholm-consensus-on-eu-enlargement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 20:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Bildt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
A disclosure at the very outset: since 2000 Swedish governments have been among ESI&#8217;s most faithful supporters.
This is hardly a coincidence. On every foreign policy issue important to us Sweden is a strong advocate within the EU, from support for EU enlargement to the Balkans and Turkey to a European perspective for countries in the Eastern neighbourhood.  Being one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The message from Prague is loud and clear</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/12/08/the-message-from-prague-is-loud-and-clear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/12/08/the-message-from-prague-is-loud-and-clear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
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Our meetings, organised by ESI and the Prague Security Studies Institute, took place in the first week of December at the marvelous Czernin Palace of the Czech Foreign Ministry. Czech policy makers, journalists and experts spoke to a distinguished group of policy and opinion makers from the Western Balkans about the Czech debate on enlargement.
Only a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>WDR Europaforum &#8211; How Europe looks from Ljubljana</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/05/08/europa-forum-wohin-steuert-die-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/05/08/europa-forum-wohin-steuert-die-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>

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Ljubljana is a fantastic place, it truly is.  I have been here before but rarely has it struck me as forcefully as this time how pleasant the capital of Slovenia can be.
This was a short trip indeed, and I spent little more than 30 hours here, but there was no shortage of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Adriatic push for enlargement. A view from Paris and Brussels</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/05/01/the-adriatic-push-for-enlargement-a-view-from-paris-and-brussels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/05/01/the-adriatic-push-for-enlargement-a-view-from-paris-and-brussels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



Kotor &#8211; View from St. Ivan&#8217;s Fortress, Montenegro





Tirana &#8211; Bulevardi Deshmoret e Kombit, Albania





Are Montenegro and Albania leading a new Adriatic push for EU enlargement in the Balkans in the coming months?



Montenegro is actively considering when to apply for EU membership and is likely to do so as early as May or June this year.  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Giuliano Amato told me in Rome</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/04/14/what-giuliano-amato-told-me-in-rome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/04/14/what-giuliano-amato-told-me-in-rome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I travelled to Rome to meet Giuliano Amato, Italian Interior Minister, former Italian Prime minister and head of the International Commission on the Balkans until 2006.   Since he spoke in English, and the whole interview is recorded, you can listen to one of Europe&#8217;s leading statesman with an interest in the region: why Montenegro [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>Understanding the Austrian Psyche I</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/12/15/understanding-the-austrian-psyche-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/12/15/understanding-the-austrian-psyche-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Austria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austrian enlargement debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning from Switzerland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Overleg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vienna, early December 2007.

Vienna &#8211; Hundertwasser House
It is a anecdote hard to forget, told off the record to a group of visitors from the Balkans by one of the most influential journalists in the country. In the previous government the Austrian minister of defence told this journalist that when he was thinking about whether to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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