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	Breeding extremes while spurning national pride and leading the Greeks into constant misery by Giorgos Kontogiannis For years, they have been accepting every financial record provided to them by any government, without controlling it, as they were supposed to. For two years, since October 2009 until November 2011, they have been tolerating a prime minister as well as t
	Holding hostage a nation in collective responsibility by Thanos Kalamidas Where is this damn line that says "enough; you cannot do this!" you cannot do it because it opposes any fundamental that constitutes human dignity and human rights, you cannot do it because it contradicts any believes and standards that based this Union
	The Armenian Genocide: What about Turkey? by Newropeans-Magazine Before any reader assumes that I have taken complete leave of my senses, I am asking this question merely because of a recent hyper-inflation of stories in both the official media and blogosphere that are linked to the Armenian genocide of 1915. This tren

	End of an Affair? City of London and EU in Bitter Acrimony by Newropeans-Magazine The global financial crisis has had a seemingly odd impact on relations between the City of London, the United Kingdom and the European Union. Before the crisis, the dominant assumption in Britain was that what was good for the City, Europe's large
	Syria : Opportunities and Limits of International Observation Efforts by Rene Wadlow The League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria is in an administratively critical time with the Observer Mission members from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates leaving t
	A Finnish election of see and not hear by Thanos Kalamidas This was a weird campaign; a more strange first round presidential election and even though everybody sort of knows who's going to win they are looking forward for the second round focusing not on the favourite but on the outsider. And of course I'm tal
	The Cooperative Spirit and its Many Manifestations by Rene Wadlow The United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/64/136 has designated 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives in order to highlight the large role that cooperatives can play in ecologically-sound development and poverty reduction. As Secre
	Is the change in Myanmar for real? by Dr. Habib Siddiqui In its latest gesture of amnesties, the military-backed regime of Thein Sein in Myanmar has released many political prisoners. Those freed included veterans of the 1988 student protest movement, monks involved in the 2007 demonstrations and ethnic-minorit
	Murderous Marines: The Wuterich Trial by Binoy Kampmark Killing has its own, laboriously worked out taxonomy, with layers of meaning imposed on its occurrence. This is whether it is exculpated because of a recognised defense at law; whether it is justified under the broader 'rules of engagement' by military
	From Vietnam to Palestine: A Crime of Silence? by Newropeans-Magazine May this Tribunal prevent the crime of silence... declared Lord Bertrand Russell to define both the spirit and objective of the International War Crimes Tribunal that was constituted in 1966 to investigate crimes committed in Vietnam and judge them accord
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