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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>A New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And so another year has passed, and, as was the case with the first of these new year posts that I wrote a few years back, the world is plodding slowly through financial and economic crisis, towards Euro-zone doom and environmental catastrophe. Happy New Year! Two years ago, I called for a more honest debate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2012/new-year-post/a-new-year-2/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Occupy What We&#8217;re Already Occupying!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s cut a bit long, but the video above is worth a watch. I like the concept of a direct and consensus based decision making process, but&#8230; What are the Occupy Wall Street lot, or the Indignados for that matter, calling for? In the backdrop of that video, I can see placards for every lefty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/1120/</link>
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		<title>Brussels Attempts To Enforce Agreed EU Law!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brussels threatens to sue Britain to let in &#8216;benefit tourists&#8217; The Telegraph Another day, another anti-EU story in The Telegraph. Normally I resist the urge to dissect articles like this, but this one is particularly annoying. The gist of the story is that the big bad bullies in Brussels want to change British (Rule Britannia, Britannia Rule [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/1112/</link>
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		<title>Hello South Sudan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A slightly belated happy birthday to South Sudan! As I assess my need for new mapping to accurately reflect the way that Africa is carved up as of Saturday, I’m drawn to thinking about the challenges that the world’s newest country faces. It’s perhaps not the best time to be striking it out alone, though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/hello-south-sudan/</link>
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		<title>Which Road Now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today sees the last edition of the News Of The World. Having never read the thing, I can’t say I’ll miss it much, but the whole scandal of its demise raises at least a couple of important questions: first, how does Britain manage to regulate the excesses of the press, without castrating it, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/which-road-now/</link>
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		<title>Climate Change Strikes: MEPs Famished!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when you just have to despair at the degree of selfishness that people (even/especially important people who have to make big decisions) can display at times. I wrote the other day about the Polish objection to tougher CO2 emissions reduction targets, but now today the European Parliament decided that lunch was more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/climate-change-strikes-meps-famished/</link>
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		<title>Thank You Poland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poland really knows how to set expectations! I didn&#8217;t have much hope that environmental issues and countering climate change would be high on the agenda during the Polish presidency of the Council of Ministers, but with Poland standing alone against an attempt to tighten CO2 emissions reduction targets, I guess any hope that the EU [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/thank-you-poland/</link>
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		<title>So who are these new MEPs for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As is usually the way of these things, Brussels is alight (at least, the constitutionally geeky bits of it are) with talk of transnational lists for the next European Parliament elections in 2014. As far as I can tell, this radical idea hasn&#8217;t filtered through to the national level. Which is kind of odd, since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/so-who-are-these-new-meps-for/</link>
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		<title>Côte d&#8217;Ivoire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the best outcome for Côte d&#8217;Ivoire? For despite the media attention shifting to Libya and Japan, the conflict rumbles on. I&#8217;m drawn to ask this question, because, though I would recently have answered, &#8216;Ouatarra in the Presidential Palace&#8217;, I&#8217;m beginning to have doubts. I have no doubt that Gbagbo has done some terrible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/cote-divoire/</link>
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		<title>Chocolate or Death?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A torrent of revolutions from across North Africa and the Middle East have fallen out of the speaker of my radio over the past few weeks. But while there is plenty of conflict and turmoil just over the Mediterranean, I get the feeling that people are ignoring the ongoing tension in Côte d&#8217;Ivoire. Whether this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thursdaybriefing.eu/2011/opinion/chocolate-or-death/</link>
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