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	<title type="text">Michael Berendt's blog</title>
	<subtitle type="text">Blogging commentary on current events from the perspective of someone who has been closely involved with the policies, the policy-makers and the whole complex network of people who make the process of European integration so exciting and absorbing.</subtitle>

	<updated>2010-03-03T20:25:42Z</updated>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Commission breaks impasse on GMOs]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-03-03T20:24:13Z</updated>
		<published>2010-03-03T20:24:13Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The new Barroso Commission has wasted no time in grasping the GMO nettle, after years of delay and obfuscation. It is authorising the cultivation and use of Amflora, a new genetically modified potato for industrial use, while at the same time working on a policy which will allow individual member states to forbid the cultivation [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Bank deposit dispute may delay Iceland talks]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-27T12:38:20Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-27T12:38:20Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ironic that the European Commission’s positive report on Iceland’s application to join the EU, produced in just six months, should have coincided with the breakdown of talks over the €3.9 billion which the Netherlands and the UK are demanding from Iceland for the collapse of the Icesave bank. It is widely predicted that Icelanders will [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[A new age for Europe or the old story?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-02-13T11:02:54Z</updated>
		<published>2010-02-13T11:02:54Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It should be a time for celebration. The Lisbon Treaty has come into force, a new European Commission has been convincingly approved by the Parliament, the European Council has a permanent president and a European foreign policy structure has been created.
Yet it feels as if Europe’s clock has been turned back ten years, to the [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Euro credibility at stake in Greek economic crisis]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-01-28T11:01:31Z</updated>
		<published>2010-01-28T11:01:31Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We’ve heard a lot about banks that are “too big to fail”. Perhaps a more immediate question is whether the sovereign nation of Greece is too big to fail. The risk of default and the threat of Greece quitting the eurozone would have profound implications for Europe’s monetary union, for other European countries wrestling with [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ten year strategy must be blueprint for change]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-01-10T15:09:58Z</updated>
		<published>2010-01-10T15:09:58Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In his first major initiative since taking up his new role on January 1 2010, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy has convened a summit for February 11 to prepare for the 2020 Strategy, a ten year programme for creating a more competitive Europe. But can these plans really achieve anything? Only if they lay [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[EU must toughen its stance after Copenhagen]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-12-20T21:09:09Z</updated>
		<published>2009-12-20T21:09:09Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[For the European Union it was a depressing end to the year! Gone were all hopes of providing global leadership at the Copenhagen conference on climate change. The EU found itself helpless on the sidelines as the US president, constrained by a sceptical Congress, confronted a Chinese prime minister apparently determined to reject any binding [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Shock: British journalist praises Barnier]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-12-08T17:42:56Z</updated>
		<published>2009-12-08T17:42:56Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[At last a touch of balance in Britain’s Daily Telegraph over the nomination of Michel Barnier to the internal market portfolio, with responsibility for financial services! I guess it’s no coincidence that the writer, eurosceptic Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, was the newspaper’s correspondent in Brussels from 1999 until 2004 – the same time span as Barnier’s former [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[EU appointments: visionaries need not apply]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-11-22T20:51:39Z</updated>
		<published>2009-11-22T20:51:39Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We live in the age of media celebrity. So no surprise at the critical and sometimes bitter press reaction to the nomination of Herman Van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton, virtually unknown beyond their own parishes, as Council President and High Representative respectively. As someone said, it was like a TV talent show where the choice [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Conservative realpolitik after Lisbon]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-11-05T22:40:50Z</updated>
		<published>2009-11-05T22:40:50Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[With the final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty the British Conservatives have set out the policy which an incoming Conservative government would apply towards the European Union. There is to be no referendum, but a series of legislative measures to limit the extent of EU jurisdiction, and negotiations to take employment and social policy law [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Leadership needed for Europe’s foreign policy]]></title>
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		<updated>2009-10-19T19:23:20Z</updated>
		<published>2009-10-19T19:23:20Z</published>		
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A fundamental purpose of the Treaty of Lisbon is to make the European Union an effective force in the modern world, a global player with a power and influence far greater than the sum of its parts. The appointment of a High Representative bestriding Commission and Council, served by the European External Action Service (EEAS), [...]&nbsp;]]></summary>
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