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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Greece</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>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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Obama, Wulff and Christians as enemies of Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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US President Barack Obama speaking to the Turkish Parliament on 6 April 2009.
Photo: White House / Chuck Kennedy
On 5 April 2009 US president Barack Hussein Obama came to Ankara and delivered a speech in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. In addition to praising Turkey he also touched the issue of the position of Turkey&#8217;s Christians:
&#8220;Freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pledge to Zoran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>A name compromise now. Or perhaps never? (Interview in Dnevnik)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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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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		<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>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/06/17/a-proposal-for-breaking-the-macedonian-deadlock-the-issue-of-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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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>The spirit of Halki and the meaning of Greece</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/21/halki-sponges-and-the-meaning-of-greece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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Island of Halki in the Dodecanese 

On my way to this year&#8217;s Halki seminar, organised every year in summer by the Athens-based think tank Eliamep, I took along a few books on Greece (in addition to a new translation of the poems by Sappho). One was a book on ancient Greek culture, The Greek Experience,  by Oxford don C.M. Bowra; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You have seven days left&#8221; &#8211; Greeks, Turks and the diplomatic revolution of 1999</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/04/you-have-seven-days-left-greeks-turks-and-the-diplomatic-revolution-of-1999/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/04/you-have-seven-days-left-greeks-turks-and-the-diplomatic-revolution-of-1999/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[balkan wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city of ghosts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lausanne treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mark mazower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nation states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papandreou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thessaloniki]]></category>

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“As small states integrate themselves in a wider world, and even the larger learn how much they need their neighbours’ help to tackle the problems that face them all, the stringently patrolled and narrow-minded conception of history which they once nurtured and which gave them a kind of justification starts to look less plausible and [...]]]></description>
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