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GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists.
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UKRAINE: Back Full Circle
Analysis by Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST - The 2004 'Orange revolution' saw a pro-Western leadership emerge victorious in a Presidential vote that opposed them to a pro-Russian candidate accused of vote rigging. After six years of political and economic chaos, the once villain Viktor Yanukovich has reclaimed the President's post.
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Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LÖVIN, Swedish fisheries policy activist
BRUSSELS - The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
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EUROPE: Poland's Pension Cuts - Cue for Former Eastern Bloc
By Pavol Stracancsky
WARSAW - Poland’s pension cuts on tens of thousands of former communist functionaries and secret police officers are adding fillip to campaigns in other East European states for similar legislation.
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CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Future
By Julio Godoy*
BERLIN - Exotic tree seedlings grow next to native species in the southeastern German village of Laufen, at a site where researchers are experimenting with ways to restore forests lost to the effects of global warming.
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ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With School Textbook
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - A textbook on human rights activism, being introduced in Romanian schools this year, steers away from preaching and uses interviews with global and local rights activists to suggest how young people may get involved.
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Q&A: ''You Could Use a Stronger European Voice on Human Rights''
David Cronin interviews KENNETH ROTH, director of Human Rights Watch
BRUSSELS - Major changes are underway in the European Union (EU). For the first time in its history, the 27-country bloc will have a foreign minister once Catherine Ashton, a British Labour politician, receives parliamentary approval for her appointment later this month. She has already taken the first steps towards assembling a diplomatic service as foreseen by the EU’s Lisbon treaty.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: European Firms See Windfall in Renewable Energy
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - European governments failed to help along an international treaty to stop global warming at the United Nations climate change summit in December, but their engineering and power industries see business opportunities in renewable energy sources and their smart management.
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ENERGY-PORTUGAL: Racing for Renewables
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - Just a decade ago, criticism rained down on sunny, windy Portugal for not making the most of nature's gifts to develop renewable energy sources. Now all signs indicate that it did not fall on deaf ears, as the country has become a leader in the field.
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MIDEAST: Pro-Israel Lobbies Work on Europe
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - Defenders of Israel’s aggressive stance have for many years been recognised as a powerful force shaping United States foreign policy. A less well-known fact is that the pro-Israel lobby has been making a concerted effort to strengthen its presence in Europe.
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BALKANS: Moderate Patriarch Sets New Course for Serb Church
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - The enthronement of a moderate as patriarch of the influential Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) has raised hopes for the planned integration of the country with the European Union (EU) and for Serbs coming to terms with the bloody Balkans wars of the 1990s.
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MIGRATION: Fortress Europe Starts With Greece
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - When Michalis Chrisohoidis, Greek minister of citizens' protection announced that FRONTEX, the European Agency for Border Control and Protection, would double its representation in this country in spring, it was clear that Greece is being charged with special responsibilities to apprehend and repatriate illegal migrants into Europe.
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BIODIVERSITY: EU Farmers Face Genetic Contamination of Seeds
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German ecological activist.
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