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	<description>The Thursday Briefing is a blog by Tom Redford about green things, especially if they’re political, and even more so if they are to do with Europe. What I write isn’t necessarily representative of any Green party.</description>
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		<title>Taking The Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It might not be the best thing to start a post with, but I&#8217;ve come to a conclusion: the citizens&#8217; initiative, currently being fleshed out by various civil servants and politicians in Brussels, is not really all that much about citizens. My conclusion has been prompted by the changes that the Council of Ministers has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/taking-the-initiative/</link>
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		<title>A Moment Of Anachronism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t like Charles de Gaulle. There, I&#8217;ve said it. I&#8217;m obviously continuing here my habit of writing blog posts with virtually no relation to current events (perhaps the cause of my low readership). But the reason for my dislike, and my current expression of it, is that in the course of reading for my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/pointless-rant/a-moment-of-anachronism/</link>
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		<title>Election Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got home from a couple of election parties; the first was the official GroenLinks party, at which I managed to end up on telly by accident, while the second was a friend&#8217;s traditional-style election night party (conveniently, the parties were in different cities). The elections in question are of course for the Tweede [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/election-night-2/</link>
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		<title>The Story Does Not End There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The story ends there,&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to hear anyone commenting on them. Nobody is authorised to comment on the gays. You will spoil things.&#8221; President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika &#8220;The president has demonstrated that he is a caring father, a considerate and tolerant president. We wish him good health in his everyday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/the-story-does-not-end-there/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;They&#8217;re Free, You Don&#8217;t Have To Cut Our Development Assistance Now&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings towards the announcement by the Malawian President that he is pardoning the two men sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment for the most heinous and indecent crime against the society and culture of Malawi, the act of—drumroll please for the sheer audacity of this offence—getting engaged. Of course, it is a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/theyre-free-you-dont-have-to-cut-our-development-assistance-now/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Allez Olla Olé&#8217; to AVMS Directive In Two Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I seem to be in a digital rights mood just now, what with my last post, and a Eurovision prompted foray into the EBU and EC&#8217;s positions on cross border media (I know, only I could go from the Eurovision Song Contest to the Audio Visual Media Services Directive in only two steps). I&#8217;m far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/allez-olla-ole-to-avms-directive-in-two-steps/</link>
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		<title>Right to Copy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in a meeting last night, discussing intellectual property, at which one of the participants suggested that copyright is &#8216;un-green&#8217;. &#8220;Greens do not do copyright&#8221; were the approximate words used. As a green, and a content producer and publisher (no matter that few read the words I write and publish), I could not disagree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/right-to-copy/</link>
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		<title>New Britain?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why this election didn&#8217;t inspire me to blog in the way that I did for the US presidential election. It should have, what with it being for my own country and all, but I just didn&#8217;t see any reason to break out the custom election day theme, and live-blog it all. Anyway, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/new-britain/</link>
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		<title>On The Value Of A Pressure Valve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I know very well that the stability pact is stupid, like all decisions that are rigid.&#8221; Romano Prodi, 2002 Why, oh why did we not go for a stronger stability and growth pact?! If it could have been enforced properly, then Greece wouldn&#8217;t have been allowed to get into the state it is in, and the Germans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/on-the-value-of-a-pressure-valve/</link>
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		<title>Talking Numerical Nonsense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels like every second conversation I hear on the radio, or see on the tv, about the UK election is focussed on immigration. Yet I&#8217;ve barely heard any discussion of the actual merits, the pros and cons of immigration. The conversation has been entirely about counting people in and, preferably in the opinion of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2010/opinion/talking-numerical-nonsense/</link>
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