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Sarkozy defends decision to attend Olympic opening

iht.com
Jul 10, 2008 199 related
        

Despite fierce criticism from European legislators, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France insisted Thursday that he had been right to agree to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing, arguing that a boycott...

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Sarkozy ducks human rights criticism, presents EU agenda, courts MEPs

euronews.net
Jul 10, 2008 71 related
        

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has presented the priorities of his country’s six-month EU presidency, promising to seek a way forward for the bloc’s Lisbon Treaty. In his speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, he...

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A tragicomic figure of ‘old Turkey’

todayszaman.com
Jun 22, 2008
        

Let us remind ourselves of some stunning remarks by Mesut Yılmaz, a former leader of the Motherland Party (ANAVATAN, then-ANAP) and a former prime minister. The conference was planned by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, chairman of the...

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Former PM stuns European Parliament with party closure remarks

todayszaman.com
Jun 19, 2008
        

Statements made by former Prime Minister Mesut Yılmaz in favor of closure of political parties as well as in defense of the Turkish military's dominant role in politics have shocked many members of the European Parliament.

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Anti-Democratic Democrats are out in force

neilclark66.blogspot.com
Jun 19, 2008
        

Splintered Sunrise, one of my favourite blogs, has a great post up on the reaction to the Irish 'No' Vote by so-called pro-EU 'democrats'We’ve also seen various European politicos holding forth, most notably Denis MacShane and...

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Irish Voters Reject E.U. Treaty That Opponents Argued Could Have Changed Country's Abortion Laws

medicalnewstoday.com
Jun 18, 2008 2,357 related
        

Irish voters on Friday voted 53% to 46% to reject a European Union treaty that opponents argued could have led to changes in Ireland's abortion ban, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the Times, Ireland is the only...

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Ian Jack: How a 1960s actor shopping in a junk shop foretold the future

guardian.co.uk
May 30, 2008
        

The revolutionary decade also saw the birth of a brand new fashion for nostalgia Forty years ago today President Charles de Gaulle went on French radio, the television service was on strike, to broadcast the message that marked the...

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Revolutionary ideas

news.com.au
May 30, 2008
        

I LIVED in Paris in the mid to late 1970s and was reminded recently of the reasons that first took me to France, when I stayed for some time in a studio on rue Dauphine in the Latin Quarter. In 1976 I rented a small apartment in rue...

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Cohen: The year that changed the world

iht.com
May 29, 2008 5 related
        

Cohen: The year that changed the world : There are many strands to the annus mirabilis of 1968 - the Prague Spring, the Paris barricades, Flower Power - but all involved an uprising against a stifling post-war order. "It's forbidden to forbid," proclaimed Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the French-born...

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Remembering the year of rebellion

canada.com
May 29, 2008
        

Peter O'Neil, Canwest News Europe Correspondent Published:Â 45 minutes ago PARIS - Montreal-born writer Mavis Gallant spent most of May 1968 following the demonstrators as they marched in the streets and tore up cobblestones to build barricades against skull-cracking riot police. Gallant's vivid...

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