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                <language>en</language><item><title>Arms industry | Greece still splashes out billions on defence (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1383501-greece-still-splashes-out-billions-defence</link><description><![CDATA[Frigates, tanks and submarines: Greece may be teetering on the brink, but the bite of austerity hasn’t come near its military. And Germany is profiting from it. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-army.jpg" length="35066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:08:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Franco-Turkish spat over genocide law</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1325611-franco-turkish-spat-over-genocide-law</link><description><![CDATA[The French parliament’s vote which approved a private member’s bill making it a crime to negate the Armenian genocide has provoked an angry response from Ankara. The reaction to the initiative in the French press has been largely negative, while the Turkish media is much more outspoken. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/STEPHFF_Turkey-France.jpg" length="34050" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:29:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | EU - Turkey's new whipping boy (Milliyet, Istanbul)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1283571-eu-turkey-s-new-whipping-boy</link><description><![CDATA[Buoyed by their country’s political and economic dynamism, more and more Turkish leaders are critical of a European Union that is mired in crisis. However, a Turkish columnist argues that this is not likely to have an impact on Ankara’s desire to join the EU. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ankara-square.jpg" length="38285" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:40:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | And if Greece goes... (Le Figaro, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1137811-and-if-greece-goes</link><description><![CDATA[What if Greece leaves the EU? Professor George Prevelakis argues that it is an eventuality that would prompt a new geopolitical upset in the Balkans. As for the EU, it would be forced to acknowledge its inability to “Europeanise” a member state of 30 years standing. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/exit-greece.jpg" length="87073" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:33:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany-Turkey | Bitter birthday</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1131861-bitter-birthday</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Bir problem mi var?&quot; Do I have a problem? The question posed in Turkish by Frankfurter Rundschau  is an apt reflection of the atmosphere [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/frankfurter-rundschau-03112-100.jpg" length="33781" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:50:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | An enlargement of illusions (Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1053791-enlargement-illusions</link><description><![CDATA[In opening up the prospect of accession to several candidate countries, the European Commissioner for Enlargement means to put on a show of optimism. But it only reinforces the impression that Europe doesn’t know where it’s going, writes the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Stefan-Fuele.jpg" length="102571" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:50:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey  | Abdullah Gül threatens to slam door on EU</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/972271-abdullah-guel-threatens-slam-door-eu</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Turkey fans are rare in Europe,&quot;  says German daily Frankfurter Rundschau about the visit to Germany of  Turkish President Abdullah G&uuml;l. Appraising the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Frankfurter-rundschau-21092-100.jpg" length="35053" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:06:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Mediterranean | Gas pressure rises a few bars</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/968651-gas-pressure-rises-few-bars</link><description><![CDATA[Gas company &quot;Nobel Energy began  foraging in the Aphrodite zone of the Cypriot economic area,&quot; at  the east of the island on September [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/politis-20092011-100.jpg" length="42958" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:23:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey-Cyprus | Ankara starts spat with EU</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/963571-ankara-starts-spat-eu</link><description><![CDATA[Ankara is &ldquo;ready to freeze relations  with EU&rdquo;, La Stampa reports. This is if Cyprus should take over the  union&rsquo;s rotating presidency in [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Stampa-19092011-100.jpg" length="12137" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:59:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | 50 years of Turkish immigration</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/904441-50-years-turkish-immigration</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Neues Deutschland,&quot; reads the Tageszeitung headline over a photograph of a Turkish couple who have made a success of their lives in Germany. In the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110901tageszeitung.jpg" length="7929" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:02:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Libya | The race for oil has begun</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/881881-race-oil-has-begun</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The rush for Libyan oil&rdquo; is already at full throttle, writes Die Presse. Contacts with the rebels to secure future contracts are mushrooming, the Vienna [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110824presse.jpg" length="5794" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:45:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey | Erdogan reins in the military</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/825821-erdogan-reins-military</link><description><![CDATA[H&uuml;rriyet reports on what it terms &quot;a new seating plan&quot; introduced by Prime Minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan at the meeting of the Supreme Military Council [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Hurriyet-100.jpg" length="49083" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:18:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cyprus | The countdown has begun (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/799821-countdown-has-begun</link><description><![CDATA[In a year’s time, the Republic of Cyprus will take over the rotating presidency of the EU. Between now and then, the Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish government want to obtain an agreement on the division of the island. If not they will suspend talks with Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Cyprus-conflict.jpg" length="150652" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:28:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Support Ankara against Assad | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/719501-support-ankara-against-assad</link><description><![CDATA[Less  than one hour&rsquo;s flight time from the EU, over the last four months, a  tyrant has been waging war on his people. Hundreds of civilians have  been arrested, tortured, raped, executed, and bombarded by the troops of  the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and these atrocities have been  greeted by near total silence or even indifference on the part of the  rest of the world. Europe has of course imposed sanctions   &ndash;  travel restrictions on Syrian leaders, an embargo on arms sales and  the suspension of economic aid  &ndash;  which have had no impact whatsoever. A  handful of leaders, like Britain&rsquo;s David Cameron, have demanded that the  Syrian regime refrain from violence, but without issuing any real  threats. As for intellectuals in Europe, their demand that the EU take action &quot;to end the massacre in Syria&quot; has yet to prompt a mobilisation like the one we saw for Libya.
However,  there is now greater justification for intervention in Syria than there  was for action against the Libyan regime: &nbsp;it is not simply a matter of  protecting a civilian population against the threat of military force  &ndash;   as it was for the city of Benghazi when the UN authorised the use of  air strikes  &ndash;  in Syria, military force has been used against civilians  for quite some time.
The  question is: why has the EU not adopted a firmer line? Could it be that  we have yet to see a sufficient number of images to arouse the  necessary indignation to fuel such a reaction? There may be some  substance to this argument. However, it is no coincidence that the  source of the sternest  &ndash;  and the most credible  &ndash;  demands for an end to  the violence and democratic reforms has been Turkey. News of the  conflict has come from the thousands of Syrian refugees forced to flee  the fighting who are massing on the Turkish border. And their accounts  of events in Syria are all the more precious, because the regime in  Damas is refusing to allow representatives of the international media or  independent observers to enter the country.
At  the same time, there is an awareness that we simply do not have the  means to force Assad to put an end to the repression. Without a  diplomatic consensus  &ndash;  that is to say without the agreement of Beijing  and Moscow, which are both opposed to any form of intervention  &ndash;  there  is no possibility that the UN Security Council will adopt an effective  resolution against the Syrian regime. So a repeat of the Libyan scenario  is out of the question. At the same time, the limited effect of  economic sanctions  &ndash;  the EU is Syria&rsquo;s main trading partner and  financial backer  &ndash;  has already been demonstrated. The sole remaining  option is diplomacy. And in this field if the Europe does not carry  sufficient weight to influence the Syrian regime, it should make a more  determined effort to support initiatives proposed by Ankara, which  remains a key ally in a region where the EU has yet to find its place.
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:51:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey | Confortable victory for Erdogan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/708951-confortable-victory-erdogan</link><description><![CDATA[Recep Tayyp Erdogan is the &ldquo;master of the ballot box,&rdquo; headlines Turkish daily Radikal, following the victory of the Party for Justice and Development (AKP) [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/13062011-Radikal-100.jpg" length="16387" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:33:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey | Neither West nor East, but up (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/705041-neither-west-nor-east</link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to the EU, wading through a sea of economic troubles, an increasingly confident Turkey goes to the polls on the 12 June. This emerging political and economic power, and not Europe, is fast becoming a model for the nascent democracies of the Middle East. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/rally-akp.jpg" length="52703" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:15:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Trouble never ends at Greek-Turkish border (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/677881-trouble-never-ends-greek-turkish-border</link><description><![CDATA[Illegal migration into Greece has slowed at the crossing near the Turkish city of Edirne since the Frontex mission, charged by the European Union to monitor its borders, deployed there for four months. But while this gap in the Schengen Zone may be partially plugged, the problem has simply been displaced. A report. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/frontex-greece.jpg" length="106712" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:04:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania-Bulgaria | On the road to Schengen</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/631791-road-schengen</link><description><![CDATA[On 2 May, a further obstacle was removed from the path towards the inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria in the Schengen area: &quot;the European Parliament&rsquo;s [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:14:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Tuekey | A 'mad project' for Istanbul</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/622661-mad-project-istanbul</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A European island.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s how H&uuml;rriyet describes the project to dig a canal 150 metres wide between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Hurriyet-28042011-100.jpg" length="11451" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:55:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cyprus-Turkey | Tensions bubbling over oil</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/611801-tensions-bubbling-over-oil</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Ankara is preparing a territorial crisis,&rdquo; writes Politis. TPAO, the Turkish national oil company, is seeking to obtain licenses to explore and drill for oil [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Politis-21042011-100.jpg" length="43155" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:52:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Geopolitics | Bucharest gets foothold in Caucasus</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/604051-bucharest-gets-foothold-caucasus</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Why Russia and Turkey fear Romania&rdquo; headlines Rom&acirc;nia liberă, setting out the energy and military strategy that Bucharest has worked out for the Caucasus. The [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/romania-libera-18042011-100.jpg" length="41095" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:48:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey | What Erdoğan knows about Europe (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/527161-what-erdogan-knows-about-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Despite the Turkish Prime minister&#039;s criticisms of the EU, it&#039;s clear his country&#039;s future lies with the union, argues a Guardian columnist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mayk-crescent.jpg" length="17391" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:30:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey | No more Mr. Nice Guy (Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/522021-no-more-mr-nice-guy</link><description><![CDATA[The Turkish prime minister is in Germany parading the self-confidence of his country. Encouraged by a booming economy and increasingly becoming a role model for emerging Arab democracies, Turkey is finding the EU increasingly unnecessary, writes the Frankfurter Rundschau. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Tayyip-Erdogan_0.jpg" length="85175" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:32:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>North Africa | Europe&#039;s new frontier (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/521091-europes-new-frontier</link><description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago nobody could have foreseen the process that brought the Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union. Now that the same is happening to Arab nations, the EU must offer them the same opportunity to strengthen democracy: the true prospect of membership. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/arab-revolution-libya.jpg" length="87379" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:17:46 +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>Employment | Come back to Germany, Pepe (La Vanguardia, Barcelona)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/474681-come-back-germany-pepe</link><description><![CDATA[In one corner - Germany, in search of skilled workers to feed its recovery. In the other, a Spain in crisis, where young graduates have no future. As in the sixties, a new flow of economic migrants might be making their way north. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/arts-students-barcelona.jpg" length="81962" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:04:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey-Greece | From the other side of the wall (Sabah, Istanbul)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/464511-other-side-wall</link><description><![CDATA[The fence Greece has decided to build on its Turkish border to keep would-be immigrants out will also be yet another obstacle between Turkey and the EU, argues the chief editor of the Istanbul paper Sabah. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MAYK_Turkey-europe.jpg" length="52628" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:48:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Asylum Policy | Might as well build a wall (Berliner Zeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/453071-might-well-build-wall</link><description><![CDATA[By March, Greece will have built a 12km long anti-immigrant fence along its border with Turkey. But perhaps throwing up a proper wall would have woken the EU to its woeful immigration policy, spectulates a Berliner Zeitung columnist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/border.jpg" length="76506" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:06:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Athens builds anti-migrant wall</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/447701-athens-builds-anti-migrant-wall</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Greece to build wall along the Evros to stop migrants,&rdquo; announces Kathimerini. The Athens daily explains that work will shortly begin on a pilot project [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/04012011-Kathimerini-100.jpg" length="15258" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:46:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arms | Cheap guns boom in Europe (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/397061-cheap-guns-boom-europe</link><description><![CDATA[As the EU cracks down on firearms, illegal trafficking in altered alarm guns is booming on the Continent. They’re cheap, easy to alter, impossible to trace – so they’re becoming the criminal’s weapon of choice. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ekol-Tuna-2.jpg" length="68513" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:07:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe / Turkey | Lure of the Bosphorus (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/393091-lure-bosphorus</link><description><![CDATA[They were born and raised in Germany, France and Belgium. But now, faced with the difficulty of finding work and a career in those countries, more and more European Turks are choosing to move to Istanbul. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bosphorus-youth.jpg" length="35050" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:33:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Institutions | EU grows weary of enlargement (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/383841-eu-grows-weary-enlargement</link><description><![CDATA[For the European press, the publication of the annual “progress report” on prospective candidates for EU accession, has failed to dispel the general apathy that surrounds the question of enlargement. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/pavel-gypsy.jpg" length="44750" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Populism | The fear peddlers hobbling Europe (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/376211-fear-peddlers-hobbling-europe</link><description><![CDATA[The new far right not only exerts a growing influence on national governments, it is also organising at a European level and could soon weigh heavily on the very workings of the EU, warns French columnist Bernard Guetta. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/vlahovic-vote.jpg" length="20027" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:49:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Turkey | Armed EU to keep out migrant flow (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/370531-armed-eu-keep-out-migrant-flow</link><description><![CDATA[The numbers of immigrants seeking passage through the porous Turko-Greek border has quadrupled in the past year. With the Greek government unable to cope, Frontex, Europe’s external borders agency is to deploy armed guards to the region. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-rabit.jpg" length="60253" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:22:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Geopolitics | The game change at Deauville (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/368191-game-change-deauville</link><description><![CDATA[The security summit at Deauville, France, saw the first inklings of a new European geopolitical order. Instead of an EU buttressed by a NATO expanding eastwards comes a &quot;trilateral&quot; Europe, sustaining Turkey&#039;s European ambitions and keeping Russia on board. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/deauville.jpg" length="57110" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:43:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Natural Gas | Moscow scores against Brussels again</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/359261-moscow-scores-against-brussels-again</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;In the muted but high-stakes war between the EU and Russia to control the gas pipelines from Central Asia to Europe, Moscow has just racked [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:20:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU accession | Turkey&#039;s elite is napping (Taraf, Istanbul)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/357821-turkeys-elite-napping</link><description><![CDATA[Since talks began in 2005, Turkey’s EU membership bid has stalled. For Istanbul daily Taraf, the blame is not only due to reluctant EU states, but should also be shared by a Turkish political elite incapable of acting in the interests of its own people. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MAYK_Turquie.jpg" length="36001" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:56:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Enlargement | One day Turkey will run the EU (Die Presse, Vienna)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/348111-one-day-turkey-will-run-eu</link><description><![CDATA[Turkey isn’t even a member yet, but deputy prime minister Ali Babacan is already demanding a leading role in Europe for his country. All you have to do is look at Turkey&#039;s economic and demographic growth to see it&#039;s likely to get what it wants, says Die Presse (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/BLEIBEL_turkey_0.jpg" length="35967" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:55:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Union for the Mediterranean | The Med's adrift (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/345251-med-s-adrift</link><description><![CDATA[The enthusiasm with which the Union for the Mediterranean was launched two years ago has been steadily waning ever since. The main reason why, says French political philosopher Sami Naïr, is the lack of a serious EU commitment to the region. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mediterranean-union_0.jpg" length="50156" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:59:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Westerwelle talks Turkey</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/344791-westerwelle-talks-turkey</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Westerwelle urges EU to engage Turkey,&rdquo; leads the Wall Street Journal Europe. In an interview with the American business daily, Germany&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/23092010-WSJ-100.jpg" length="12407" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:13:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Len, Trouw (Amsterdam) | Nearly European | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/338491-nearly-european</link><description><![CDATA[Nearly European (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/LEN--Turquie-Europe-460.jpg" length="75743" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:31:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The Turkish vote | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/337491-turkish-vote</link><description><![CDATA[By a single &quot;yes&quot;, the Turks have approved a far-reaching reform of their constitution, sought by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#039;s Islamo-conservatives. While the changes are mostly aimed at reducing the role of the military in the country&#039;s high courts, Erdogan can now, thirty years to the day after the 1980 coup d&#039;&eacute;tat, claim a triple victory. 
First of all, he will be in a dominant position for next year&#039;s legislative elections, in which he is running for his third consecutive term. Next, he is depriving the army of its former privileged position in a number of important institutions. And third, Erdogan has brought his country yet closer to the European Union, which has imposed a number of membership requirements for Turkey, notably the need for greater democracy in the judiciary and in public life. 
Paradoxically, the &quot;Europeanisation&quot; of Turkey will be set back a bit, because the party responsible for this referendum is a religious one. And this is why the vote, which has met with general satisfaction, has inspired a measure of prudence from Europe&#039;s capitals. But as for Turkey&#039;s eventual membership in the EU, the ball is now squarely in the hands of the Twenty-Seven. Erdogan can rightly claim to have put himself directly in the line of fire in order to satisfy Europe&#039;s demands. It is now up to them to take the risks  &ndash;  political risks  &ndash;  to bring the membership negotiations to fruition. 
Gian Paolo Accardo
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 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:06:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkish referendum | Erdogan buries Atatürk (Zaman, Istanbul)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/336981-erdogan-buries-atatuerk</link><description><![CDATA[In voting Yes to wide-ranging constitutional reform, the Turkish electorate has demonstrated a wish to modernise the country and seek ever closer links with the EU, even if this was not a part of the campaign agenda. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Erdogan-Ataturk.jpg" length="41353" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:23:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Restless holidays | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/325781-restless-holidays</link><description><![CDATA[Can we really talk about a return from the easy, slow-news days of summer holidays at a time when it seems that the whole of Europe was unable to shut down for even a weekend? Between saving Greece, the government negotiations in the Netherlands and Belgium, the debate on the proposed energy tax in Gemany, the raging fires in Russia, the floods in Central Europe and Pakistan (where the EU was very last at jumping in to help, unusually), and of course the issue of the &quot;voluntary repatriations&quot; of Romanian and Bulgarian Roma from France, this summer has been anything but idle. Except, perhaps, in the case of European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, from whom we have heard nothing for the last month, notes La Stampa.
And things might well continue at the same pace. Following the summit of the &quot;Big four&quot; European powers set for 6 September  &ndash;  that the Belgian EU presidency threatens to boycott, fearing that its real purpose is to legitimise France&#039;s expulsions of the Roma&nbsp; &ndash;  there will be a meeting of foreign ministers, who are to discuss, among other topics, the issue of Kosovo (Berlin has suggested to Serbia that they would have an open door into the EU if they recognised Kosovo&#039;s autonomy). There is also the (less than inspiring) state of justice in Bulgaria and Romania, both trying to be a part of the Schengen zone. Next up are the referendum on the presidential election in Moldavia (a requisite condition for pursuing negotiations toward an eventual membership in the Schengen area), as well as one on Constitutional reforms in Turkey (ditto), not to mention the legislative elections in Sweden. Which leaves a lot on the plate of the Union&#039;s unusually quiet Belgian presidency, whose first hundred days will soon be coming to an end.
Iulia Badea Gu&eacute;rit&eacute;e
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:18:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Enlargement | EU's backdoor thrown open (Le Figaro, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/316361-eu-s-backdoor-thrown-open</link><description><![CDATA[Millions of Turks, Serbs, Moldovans, Ukrainians and Macedonians could soon be European citizens, thanks to some fancy footwork by new member states (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/romanian-border.jpg" length="56257" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:25:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Bye bye to the Polish plumber, Guten Tag to the German carpenter (Foreign Policy România, Bucarest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/314631-bye-bye-polish-plumber-guten-tag-german-carpenter</link><description><![CDATA[The myth of the Polish plumber taking bread from the table of German workers has been and gone. According Foreign Policy Romania, the time has come for workers in Western Europe to migrate to Central Europe, where there are plenty of jobs on offer. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/workers.jpg" length="69499" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:26:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cinema | Crossing cultures in Romania's border zone</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/311681-crossing-cultures-romania-s-border-zone</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Salonta, where we take the pulse of migration,&rdquo; says Evenimentul Zilei, welcoming positive feedback following the world premiere of Morgen on August 7, the 63rd [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/brief/morgen.png" length="187049" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:38:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bikers | Hells Angels ride into the Balkans</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/308961-hells-angels-ride-balkans</link><description><![CDATA[In Southern Europe, the rapid development of outlaw motorcycle gangs, and in particular the Hells Angels, has prompted fears of turf wars in the near [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:07:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Northern Cyprus | Gambling behind the green line (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/306381-gambling-behind-green-line</link><description><![CDATA[Under the weight of an international embargo, the Turkish part of Cyprus is trying to develop its own economic resources. The latest initiative: building casinos to attract foreign tourists. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cyprus-casino_0.jpg" length="72141" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:07:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hassan Bleibel, Al-Mustaqbal (Beirut) | Trojan horse | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/305611-trojan-horse</link><description><![CDATA[Trojan horse (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/Bleibel-turquie.jpg" length="107251" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:21:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
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