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Diplomacy: 5 billion to aid Arab revolutions

Within the framework of its Neighbourhood Policy, "the EU has made democracy a condition for aid to Arab countries," headlines the daily El País. On […]

26 May 2011 – Presseurop El País
Music: Eurovision, better than an EU directive

The Eurovision Song Contest is not just a festival of tackiness, cheese and camp, argues Irish author Martina Devlin. It’s also a chance to have a look at the countries with whom we now have inextricable links.

28 May 2010 – Irish Independent (Dublin) 2
Middle East: Moving closer to Syria

Britain’s recent call to bring Syria into the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is part of a wider western strategy to tempt the previously isolated Ba'athist regime away from Iran and continue co-operation with the west in Iraq and Lebanon. Chris Philips at the Guardian wonders whether we are witnessing another example of human rights and democracy being sacrificed for political expediency.

27 August 2009 – The Guardian (London)

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