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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; EU 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>Visas and the Czechs &#8211; savoring success</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2009/06/15/visas-and-the-czechs-savoring-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carl Bildt]]></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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		<title>The Stockholm consensus on EU enlargement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 20:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
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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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balkans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Rupnik]]></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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		<title>Peddling ideas around Schuman I (Brussels in January: Coweb)</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2008/01/18/peddling-ideas-around-schuman-brussels-in-january/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How ESI works]]></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>
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For the past seven years I have come to Brussels every few weeks.  These trips are all similar: walking between the buildings which surround Schuman square,   the Charlemagne (home to DG enlargement), Justus Lipsius (home to the European Council), the Berlaymont (the refurbished headquarter of the Commission) and the Residence Palace (home to the European Policy Centre, EPC, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk at the ambassadors conference in Tirana on EU enlargement</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2007/11/01/talk-at-the-ambassadors-conference-in-tirana-on-eu-enlargement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presentations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambassadors conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked on the future of EU enlargement at the annual ambassadors conference in Tirana at the invitation of the foreign minister.  For more on this see my blog on the gatecrashing principle.
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