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Ukraine
October 29, 2012, Comments Off on Ukraine

CIA World Factbook (BBC via Foreign Policy) Ukraine: Preliminary results from Ukraine’s parliamentary elections on ...

European Union (EU) awarded 2012 Nobel Peace Prize
October 14, 2012, Comments Off on European Union (EU) awarded 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union (EU) “for over six decades contributed to the advancement ...

Terminating the European status quo
July 9, 2012, Comments Off on Terminating the European status quo

By Mark Leonard Published by Reuters, 5 July 2012 (Reuters Opinion) When Arnold Schwarzenegger declared “I’ll be bac ...

Wednesday Night #1563
February 15, 2012, 1 Comment

Prime Minister Harper’s visit to China seems to have been successful on all counts; more than 20 commercial deals ...

Europe & EU 2011
January 2, 2012, 1 Comment

Jeremy Kinsman: Can Europe be saved? (Nov. 28) It has been a tough fortnight for Europe’s struggling economies. In ...

Wednesday Night #1556
December 28, 2011, 1 Comment

Wednesday Night is, of course, open for business between Christmas and New Year’s – which seems now to have ...

Vaclav Havel, R.I.P.
December 23, 2011, Comments Off on Vaclav Havel, R.I.P.

Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 by: Dan Bilefsky and Jane Perlez, The New York Tim ...

EU economy 2011 Part III
December 9, 2011, 1 Comment

See also Greece, EU & world economy 2011 ; New School of Athens Reuters Factbox: Coming events in the euro zone debt ...

Wednesday Night #1553
December 7, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1553

See exchange on the Middle East with David Oliver & Joumane Chahine With great thanks to Margaret Duthie for her cop ...

Wednesday Night #1550
November 15, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1550

This week, we have a double treat. Fiona is flying in from Calgary for a 5-day visit, neatly arranged to permit her to b ...

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