March 13, 2006

Transition and accession

Montenegro III: Am Not, Are So

by Douglas Muir

Continuing AFOE’s first point-counterpoint debate between two posters, here’s my final post on Montenegrin independence.

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I’ll discuss a few specific points that BG made, then say why I still [...]

November 7, 2005

Minorities and integration

Scott into the breach

by Scott MacMillan

Well, I don’t read or speak French, have probably spent less than 30 days in France in my entire life, and I don’t tend to follow French politics much. But what the heck, here I go.
Of leading French politicians, it seems Nicolas Sarkozy has actually made one of the stronger efforts to reach out [...]

September 15, 2005

The European Union

The Danish Job

by Edward Hugh

This is really a hybrid post, although perhaps the unifying theme - for reasons which should be clear by the end - is Denmark.
In the first place Danish journalist Kjeld Hansen has a hard-hitting article in EU Observer about just what does actually happen to all that money paid-out in the form of agricultural [...]

May 4, 2005

Europe and the world

China and Protectionism

by Edward Hugh

The Chinese minister of trade Bo Xilai was in Paris yesterday. Most likely this is simply a happy coincidence, but the timing couldn’t have been better. The issue of Chinese textile imports has become one of the issues in the French referendum, and minister Bo was conveniently available to make all the right gestures:
“We want [...]

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