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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; European Union</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>Talk at Hertie School in Berlin on Turkey-EU relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alina Mungiu-Pippidi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[German debate about Turkey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, one of Romania&#8217;s leading social scientists and founder of the Romanian Academic Society has moved to teach at the Hertie School of Governance (HSoG) in Berlin where she invites me to give a presentation on Turkey&#8217;s potential for accession to the EU. Social and economic developments, the recent (legal) revolution of women&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gatecrashing principle (Tirana)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albanian Soho]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The threat of never-ending accession]]></category>
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1st of November. I am sitting in the conference room  of Hotel Tirana, the big hotel on Skanderbeg square in the heart of the  Albanian capital.  I first stayed here in  1990 when this country was still communist, there were no private cars on the  streets, and I was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk at the ambassadors conference in Tirana on EU enlargement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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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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