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                <language>en</language><item><title>9/11, 10 years on | The East rises over Ground Zero (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/931621-east-rises-over-ground-zero</link><description><![CDATA[We have spent the years since the attacks on US soil focusing on the terrorist threat and wars in Afganistan and Iraq. But we have been blind to the real global change : the slow but unstoppable rise of China, writes Timothy Garton Ash. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/globe-wtc.jpg" length="15348" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:40:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | 5 soldiers dead as Bastille celebrations begin</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/775121-5-soldiers-dead-bastille-celebrations-begin</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;A July 14 in mourning&quot;, headlines Le Parisien. On the eve of the 222nd anniversary of the French revolution, a national holiday, France has learned [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/parisien-14072011-100.jpg" length="43408" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:32:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France-Afghanistan | Free after 18 months with the Taliban</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/749861-free-after-18-months-taliban</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Free at last,&rdquo; headlines French daily Lib&eacute;ration, following the release June 29 of two French journalists who were held hostage for 547 days by the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110630liberation.jpg" length="7323" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:24:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | We&#039;re staying | Cartoon (L’Avenir, Namur)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/743131-were-staying</link><description><![CDATA[We&#039;re staying (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/SONDRON_2011-06-26-7374:490.jpg" length="225709" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:43:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | French troops to follow US retreat</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/737731-french-troops-follow-us-retreat</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;France to withdraw from Afghanistan,&quot; headlines Le Figaro. Just hours after President Barack Obama&rsquo;s announcement that a third of American forces will leave Afghanistan by [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110624figaro.jpg" length="7657" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:56:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Poles dying for US citizenship</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/647431-poles-dying-us-citizenship</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;US Army citizen,&rdquo; headlines Gazeta Wyborcza, reporting that many young Poles with green cards (permanent US residency permits) are joining the American army &nbsp;to obtain [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Gazeta-wyborcza-11052011-100_0.jpg" length="34932" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 14:58:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Terrorism | Bin Laden's legacy (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/629061-bin-laden-s-legacy</link><description><![CDATA[Symbolic as the death of the al-Qaeda leader is, it does not mark the end of the fight against terrorism, nor of its consequences for our way of life, writes Le Monde. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Bin-Laden-is-death_0.jpg" length="125866" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:12:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | What to do? Give them a job! (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/509081-what-do-give-them-job</link><description><![CDATA[Italy has requested financial assistance from the EU to cope with the wave of migrants from north Africa. Instead of increasing the budget of Frontex, the border security agency, the EU should rather reform its asylum policy to foster economic integration of immigrants. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/lampedusa-street_2.jpg" length="40570" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:28:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arab revolutions | Seven reasons to be hopeful</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/506771-seven-reasons-be-hopeful</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Arab revolutions: a chance for us.&rdquo; With a slight air of revenge after seven months of debate on the place of Islam in Germany, Die [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Die-Zeit-100.JPG" length="28529" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:04:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Military | Misunderstanding over Dutch mission</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/503191-misunderstanding-over-dutch-mission</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We want to fight the Taliban say Kunduz police,&rdquo; reports Volkskrant. According to the Dutch daily, Afghan police are &ldquo;very puzzled by the Dutch mission.&rdquo; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volkskrant-15022011-100.JPG" length="30952" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:56:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | New mission to Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/479741-new-mission-afghanistan</link><description><![CDATA[Less than a year after discord over the Afghanistan issue led to the collapse of the previous government, the Netherlands is preparing to send a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/27012011-Trouw-100.jpg" length="11608" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:38:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europol | Protest, an increasingly suspect activity (Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/477911-protest-increasingly-suspect-activity</link><description><![CDATA[EU countries have been swapping information with their allies in the &quot;war on terror&quot;. Often it&#039;s just information on “troublemakers”, i.e. political protesters. And whether they have actually ever committed an offence makes no difference. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/anonymous-1.jpg" length="57676" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:20:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Afghan refugees occupy university</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/475691-afghan-refugees-occupy-university</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Law faculty turned into shantytown,&quot; complains To Ethnos.  On 23 January, 250 Afghan immigrants and a number of left-wing students  occupied amphitheatres in [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/25012011-ToEthnos-100.jpg" length="14885" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:03:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Saying Adiós to Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/453741-saying-adios-afghanistan</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Troops to leave Afghanistan this year,&rdquo; announces La Vanguardia. On 6 January, defence minister Carme Chac&oacute;n said she hopes &ldquo;to begin the process of handing [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/07012011-La-Vanguardia-100.jpg" length="18571" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:31:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>NATO | The death of the west (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/397711-death-west</link><description><![CDATA[The NATO summit to be held in Lisbon on 19 and 20 November will be marked by the rise of Russian influence in the alliance. A Romanian editorialist highlights the vital importance of the link between Eastern Europe and Washington. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Otan-Lisbon.jpg" length="28309" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:24:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sweden | Afghanistan consensus breaks down</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/363171-afghanistan-consensus-breaks-down</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Death will not change Sweden&rsquo;s tactics&rdquo; in Afghanistan, writes Svenska Dagbladet, after Sweden&#039;s 500 strong contingent suffered its fifth casualty on 16 October. Predicting that [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101018sd.jpg" length="6956" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:16:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy / Afghanistan | Rome&#039;s secret dirty war</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/362521-romes-secret-dirty-war</link><description><![CDATA[The death of four Alpini troops in the Afghan province of Farah on 9 October has reignited debate on Italy&rsquo;s participation in the Nato-led intervention [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101015espresso.jpg" length="7836" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:08:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy / Afghanistan | Bomb first, retreat later</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/359061-bomb-first-retreat-later</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Kabul, Italy&rsquo;s pulling out in 2011,&quot; headlines La Repubblica. The death of four Italian soldiers, ambushed in the Afghan province of Farah, has rekindled the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/12102010-La-Repubblica-100.jpg" length="7214" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:27:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | Taliban claim two Spanish victims</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/324201-taliban-claim-two-spanish-victims</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Revolt against Spanish troops&rdquo;, headlines P&uacute;blico. The Madrid daily, along with the rest of the national press, is given over to news of the killing [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/26082010-Publico.jpg" length="14548" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:31:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Peacekeeping | Berlin lost in Somalia</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/305301-berlin-lost-somalia</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;German debacle in the horn of Africa&quot;, headlines Die Tageszeitung after the disappearance of 1,000 Somali peacekeepers freshly trained by German armed forces in Ethiopia. [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/30072010-TAZ.jpg" length="12518" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:49:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arend van Dam, HET FINANCIEELE DAGBLAD (AMSTERDAM) | Caught between Nato and the Taliban | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/302831-caught-between-nato-and-taliban</link><description><![CDATA[Caught between Nato and the Taliban (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/AREND_Afghans-leak.jpg" length="100672" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:56:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Terrorism | Somali lessons for Afghanistan (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/302211-somali-lessons-afghanistan</link><description><![CDATA[Following the leak to the international press of over 90,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan, there is precious little evidence that the country is stabilising. The west might do well to abandon its counter-insurrection strategy there, and focus instead on counter-terrorism. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/dutch-soldiers-afghanistan.jpg" length="57594" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:18:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | The war unravels</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/301591-war-unravels</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation&rdquo;, leads the Guardian. In what is described as one of the biggest leaks in US military [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:46:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | British army leaves war to Americans</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/290231-british-army-leaves-war-americans</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Afghanistan: Now it&#039;s America&#039;s war&rdquo;, headlines the Independent, the day after the British army announced its withdrawal from Sangin, in Helmand province. Described as a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/08072010-The-Independent.jpg" length="11140" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:40:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Warsaw working on Afghanistan pull out</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/280411-warsaw-working-afghanistan-pull-out</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Afghanistan mission to end in 2013,&quot; headlines Gazeta Wyborcza, on plans currently being drawn up by Warsaw and NATO to withdraw the Polish army contingent [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/24062010-gazeta-wyb.jpg" length="12179" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:49:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | President deserts Afghanistan debate</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/263461-president-deserts-afghanistan-debate</link><description><![CDATA[Criticised for remarking while on a visit to Afghanistan that an export reliant country like Germany occasionally has to defend its economic interests, the German [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100601faz.jpg" length="4766" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:17:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cinema | Afghanistan documentary rocks Denmark</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/253521-afghanistan-documentary-rocks-denmark</link><description><![CDATA[The general staff of the Danish army has started an investigation of war crimes possibly committed by soldiers in Afghanistan, after Janus Metz&rsquo; documentary Armadillo [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Jyllands-Posten-18052010.jpg" length="37037" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:46:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | Italian government leaves NGO high and dry</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/230001-italian-government-leaves-ngo-high-and-dry</link><description><![CDATA[The Afghan authorities have scotched reports that three Italians working for Emergency, an NGO that provides medical aid in international war zones, have confessed to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100413manifesto.jpg" length="6846" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:23:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | A costly miscasting</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/215611-costly-miscasting</link><description><![CDATA[In a serious case of dangerous amateurism, the European Commission has jeopardised its own personnel on the ground in Kabul, reveals Lib&eacute;ration. In 2008 it [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100323liberation.jpg" length="6403" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:52:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Common Defence  | Time to close ranks (European Voice, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/206501-time-close-ranks</link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to defence, each member state has so far been content to pump money into its own army. But challenges posed by the conflict in Afghanistan may force a rethink of this policy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/somalia-atalanta_3.jpg" length="36265" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:16:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | War comes home (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/196121-war-comes-home</link><description><![CDATA[Unable to agree on whether to keep their troops in Afghanistan, the Dutch coalition government collapsed on 20 February. The shockwave could hit other European contingents on the ground, predicts the European press. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/afghanistan-netherlands.JPG" length="100312" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:37:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | Squaring the circle (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/179891-squaring-circle</link><description><![CDATA[The Western community have got to stop reducing Afghanistan to a domestic policy issue and deluding themselves and the public, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung: viz. that their objectives can be achieved, that they can go home soon and, above all, that there will be a happy end in Afghanistan. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/afghanistan-spiral_3.jpg" length="34113" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:32:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Dark secrets and necessary lies | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/179541-dark-secrets-and-necessary-lies</link><description><![CDATA[On 29 January, Tony Blair appeared before a commission of inquiry to explain the manner in which he decided to lead his country into a war in Iraq. On the previous day, a few miles away, the London conference on the future of Afghanistan was held. The issue of political transparency arising from these Bush-era wars continues to weigh heavily on Europeans. The Iraq war raised this issue because leaders manipulated public opinion to create support for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Afghanistan has raised it because in the absence of results in the field or a clear strategy, many citizens have the feeling that their governments are not telling the whole truth about the deployment of their troops.
One of the main intellectual influences for American neoconservatives is the German born philosoper L&eacute;o Strauss, who died in 1973. As the American&nbsp;editorialist William Pfaff explained in 2003, in a contested interpretation of Strauss&#039;s thought, neoconservatives  &ndash;  among them the architects of the Bush wars  &ndash;  have seized on the idea that it is &quot;necessary to tell lies to people about the nature of political reality,&quot; which is too much for the average citizen. &nbsp;At the same time, the higher echelons of government will remain &quot;an elite [that] recognizes the truth&hellip; and keeps it to itself.&quot;&nbsp;In democratic societies, the temptation to take refuge in the notion that the truth is only for an elite does not only exist for neoconservative ideologues. European leaders who are forced to take responsibility for complex decisions and justify them to an increasingly sceptical public also run the risk of &nbsp;succumbing to this attitude. The lack of transparency that characterized the war in Iraq must not be allowed to prevail in the construction of Europe. The implementation of the Lisbon Treaty entailed a significant cost to the quality of democracy. Its application, as Le Monde explains this week, is subject to an interplay of powers, which is largely incomprehensible to Europe&#039;s citizens. Both of these conditions contribute to the danger posed by elitism. Just because it might make the EU weaker is not a sufficient justification for elitism. &Eacute;ric Maurice
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:15:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | Getting out of the Afghan quagmire</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/178751-getting-out-afghan-quagmire</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;It&#039;s still hard&quot;, headlines Tageszeitung. In the light of Barack Obama&#039;s Afghanistan strategy &ndash; &quot;which isn&#039;t one&quot;, the Berlin daily quips &ndash; an editorial calls [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100128-tageszeitung.jpg" length="7062" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:51:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pepsch, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich) | War crime and reimbursement | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/153041-war-crime-and-reimbursement</link><description><![CDATA[War crime and reimbursement (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/PEPSCH-otan-allemagne.jpg" length="135775" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:58:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | 100 dead soldiers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/151761-100-dead-soldiers</link><description><![CDATA[Following the death on December 7th of yet another soldier in Helmand province, British army casualties in Afghanistan have reached one hundred this year, making [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Daily-Telegraph-081209_0.JPG" length="42847" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:43:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | Mission : Blurred (Die Tageszeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/149341-mission-blurred</link><description><![CDATA[The US wants more German soldiers in Afghanistan. The current Bundestag debate goes to show the governments involved have yet to clarify their objectives or give up the myth of the noble warrior, and they adamantly refuse to put the public in the picture, deplores the Tageszeitung. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/afghanistan-germany-soldier.jpg" length="22713" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:44:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | Poland answers Obama&#039;s call</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/146981-poland-answers-obamas-call</link><description><![CDATA[Poland will send another thousand soldiers to Afghanistan to support its 2000-strong contingent in the country, the front page of Polska reports. The move is [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/091130-polska.jpg" length="6577" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:02:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Bundeswehr Afghan blunder exposed</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/145131-bundeswehr-afghan-blunder-exposed</link><description><![CDATA[In an explosive scoop in 26 November edition, Bild has revealed the existence of &quot;a top-secret video of the Bundeswehr aerial attack&quot; on two tanker [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/bild-261109.jpg" length="47374" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:05:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Dead immigrants don't exist</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/141541-dead-immigrants-don-t-exist</link><description><![CDATA[Nebahat Albayrak, Dutch State Secretary for Justice, wants the EU to register the number of immigrants dying every year en route to Europe, announces NRC [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/091120-nrc-handelsblad.jpg" length="7091" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Steve Bell, The Guardian (London) | Afghanistan Sinking | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/130461-afghanistan-sinking</link><description><![CDATA[Afghanistan Sinking (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/steve-bell-091103_3.jpg" length="41810" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Greece opts for forced repatriation (Kathimerini, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/124951-greece-opts-forced-repatriation</link><description><![CDATA[Greece, the point of entry for many an illegal immigrant to the EU, is also required to take back immigrants that other countries do not want to keep. However, pleading a lack of appropriate infrastructure, it has failed to honour this responsibility, and instead adopts a policy of forced repatriation, which rides roughshod over refugees&#039; rights. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/illegal-immigration-greece.jpg" length="96756" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:51:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Foreign policy | The peacekeeper&#039;s lament (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/121741-peacekeepers-lament</link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats, soldiers, policemen: from the Balkans to Afghanistan, the EU is deploying more or less ambitious  peacekeeping missions. But in a report two experts assert that lack of organisation or commitment from member states means that the results often fall short of expectation, reports Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Eupol-afganistan.JPG" length="128841" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:15:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Rome, city of eternity for asylum seekers (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/113201-rome-city-eternity-asylum-seekers</link><description><![CDATA[They have travelled through Iran and Turkey, or crossed the Mediterranean to Greece, to find themselves blocked in Italy, waiting to obtain right of asylum. Cafebabel.com went to meet up these Afghan refugees in Ostiense, in the south of Rome. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/welcome-film.jpg" length="23749" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:16:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Nobel prize | Obama comes not with peace but a sword</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/112731-obama-comes-not-peace-sword</link><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel peace prize, but this morning New Statesman&rsquo;s political editor Mehdi Hasan is less than impressed with the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/new-statesman-091009.jpg" length="6541" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:12:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Asylum Seekers | &quot;Delight&quot; as Besson clears Calais Jungle</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/100941-delight-besson-clears-calais-jungle</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Next stop UK&rdquo;, announces the front page of the Daily Mail, reporting on the closure of the refugee camp known as &ldquo;The Jungle&rdquo; in Calais, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/daily-mail-090922.jpg" length="8161" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:35:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Afghanistan | McChrystal calls for fresh blood</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/100901-mcchrystal-calls-fresh-blood</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Afghanistan. More Blood Needed,&rdquo; runs today&rsquo;s headline in Gazeta Wyborcza, which covers the recent report from Gen Stanley McChrystal, the commander of allied troops in [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/gazeta-wyborcza-090922.jpg" length="6506" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:20:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy-Afghanistan | Should we stay or should we go?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/99601-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go</link><description><![CDATA[After the death of six Italian paratroopers in a suicide car bombing in Kabul on 17 September, the Italian government is divided over calls for [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/la-repubblica-090918.jpg" length="6655" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:50:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Dennmark | Gagging Private Rathsack</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/97671-gagging-private-rathsack</link><description><![CDATA[Denmark is buzzing with excitement over a new book the government wants to ban. In&nbsp;Jaeger, i Krig med Eliten, (Special Forces Hunter at War), a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Politiken-160909.jpg" length="12072" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:52:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Democratisation | EU too soft on hardline regimes</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/96041-eu-too-soft-hardline-regimes</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Europe&rsquo;s attempt to base foreign policy on ethical considerations is liable to come a cropper,&rdquo; opines the Tagesspiegel, citing Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and Libya as cases [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/tagesspiegel-090914.jpg" length="5928" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:46:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
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