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|  | Does Foreign Policy Shift?
by Eleni Fotiou
As of late, an interesting activity has been taking place in Turkey’s
foreign policy sphere. Since the start of the Justice and Development
Party (AKP) government’s second term in office (2007 to date), which
coincided with an upgrading of PM Erdogan’s Senior Advisor Ahmet
Davutoglu’s role, and due to the contemporary challenges in its
immediate neighbourhood -such as the “frozen” or “unfrozen” conflicts
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|  | The importance of Euroelections
by Panagiotis Koutsoumpelis
In a few days, European citizens will be asked to cast their vote for the nomination of the new members of the European Parliament. They will be asked to decide what kind of Europe they want, what kind of Europe they need.
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 | The Committee on Petitions: Best practices from Bulgaria
by Dushana Zdravkova
The Bulgarian Accession to the European Union was a process of long
negotiations, involving harmonization of legislation with the Acquis
communautaire within the 31 negotiation chapters. Part of the process
involved monitoring the transfer of the legal acts in the Bulgarian
legislation by the civic society organizations.
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 | Debating Europe: A Critique
by Dimitris N. Chryssochoou
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, so is the
idea of European integration as a federalist or even potentially
federalizing project. Whether or not this is an easy conclusion to be
drawn, there is evidence to suggest that the European Union (EU) still
remains a states-led affair.
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 | What is peculiar about these elections?
by Daniel Daianu
There is some gloom on the anticipated low turnout of voters for the
European elections, which are to be held in early June this year. A
self serving argument about this forecast would point the finger at
traditional low participation rates in these elections for many years,
even decades, now.
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 | A view from Bulgaria
by Yordan Dimitrov
On 7 June 2009 Bulgaria will elect its 17 Members of the European
Parliament. As from this year, the Bulgarian MEPs will serve for the
first time a full five-year term in office. After accession to the EU
in 2007, the country sent its representatives to the European
Parliament just for the remaining two years of its life.
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 | East of Eden - How is the EU going to deal with its Eastern neighbours?
by Georgi Kamov
For the European Union, these are turbulent times not only because of
global issues such as the financial crisis or internal problems such as
the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. It is enough to look at the
media headlines from the past several months in order to get the
picture of an unstable and problem-ridden Eastern neighbourhood from
Zagreb to Astana.
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 | “The young blood doesn’t obey to anold Treaty”
by Francisco Oom Peres
Distance… Looking for the proper word to describe the feeling about the
European Union (EU) to the Portuguese youth; distance is the answer.
Distance I – The people – Who are those nice ladies and gentleman who are going to leave for 4 years on Strasbourg?
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 | "What else can the EU do for us?"
by Giorgos Kentas and Christina Ioannou
In the last couple of months, political parties in Cyprus strive to
make their case for the upcoming European Parliament elections. On 6th
June 2009, the electors are called upon to cast their ballot that will
determine the 6 Cypriot Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
These elections, however, seem to be quite peculiar for Cypriots.
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 | Why the European elections matter
by Hugo Brady
Between June 4th and June 7th, Europeans will cast their votes to elect
a new European Parliament (EP). Recent opinion polls indicate that they
will do so without much enthusiasm. Indeed, there is every chance that
the average turnout will be the lowest ever – it has fallen at every
election since the first time that Europeans directly elected their
MEPs in 1979, and sank to 45.6 per cent in 2004.
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|  | Welcome to Montenegro, “Anna Lindh” Foundation!
by Aleksandra Boskovic
After the proclamation of independence in May 2006, Montenegro has been
establishing its pace to follow the European integration path,
struggling to adjust to demanding European requirements and standards.
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 | Welcome to Albania, “Anna Lindh” Foundation!
by Besnik Mustafaj
There are a thousand reasons highlighting the fact that it is extremely
beneficial for the Albanian civil society to join the network
established by the Anna Lindh Foundation and to develop there an active
and ongoing cooperation.
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| book review
|  | Integration policies and the Euro-Muslims
“I have always perceived Migration Studies as an interdisciplinary field providing me with the tools to scrutinize not only the life worlds of immigrants and their descendants, but also the ways in which the receiving countries have politically, socially, culturally, economically and legally changed over time vis-a-vis immigrant origin populations.
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| activities
| | ESME 2009
The Euroscience Mediterranean Event 2009, ESME 2009 will take place
from 15 to 19 October 2009, in Athens, at the "THEATRON" cultural
centre "Hellenic Cosmos".
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| Restore Trust - Rebuild Bridges
The Anna Lindh Foundation has the pleasure to announce the online
launch of the "Restore Trust, Rebuild Bridges" Initiative, which was
discussed and agreed on by our advisory council during its last meeting
in February. It represents part of the contribution dedicated by ALF to
address the very critical situation affecting the Euro-Mediterranean
region and its institutional framework since the beginning of the year
2009. This initiative will have a total budget of 330 000 &eu...read more » |
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