EUROPE:  'Participatory Democracy Can Resolve Crisis'
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FLORENCE, Oct 19 (IPS) - "Participatory democracy can be the answer to  the European crisis," says SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal, Socialist  candidate in the last general election in France.
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Some EU members are hesitant to support the province's bid for independence after a UN resolution was dropped Friday. An informal group meets Wednesday.
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EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini says member states must show solidarity dealing with refugees.
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Europe and the United States welcomed the outcome of Ukrainian presidential elections won by pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko, and urged the former Soviet state's leaders to heal their divisions to end a month-long crisis.
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Manifestazione una cosa positiva per la democrazia
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democracy. Critics say it is a travesty of free choice in a country where thousands of dissidents are in jail and human rights abuses are said to.
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The EU has told Italy to end the crisis that has left mounds of rubbish in Naples within a month or face court action.
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MONTREAL, Aug 4 (IPS) - The failure of the UK/U.S.-led coalition to implant  democracy in Iraq has prompted deep soul-searching in the British  civil service and opened the door for progressive organisations  to influence its policy, says one long-time activist.
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The fear here is that the whole of Europe has succumbed to the virus of racism and that new political parties based on some variant of racism will swell in popular support, win elections, run institutions of ...
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ROME, Oct 12 (IPS) - The European Union has definite responsibilities in  the Palestine crisis, and must now carry them out, says Luisa  Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament.
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LONDON, Oct 16 (IPS) - The meeting on 'The Faultline in British  Politics' at the opening of the European Social  Forum in  London Friday came to resemble at least a little the frontline in  Iraq. Civil  society seemed at civil war.
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By American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Sep. 19--If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.   It's an old saying, but it rings true.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (IPS) - The European Union's humanitarian aid policy  does not draw a sufficiently clear distinction between responses  to emergencies and longer-term development assistance, a new  report has concluded.
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Comment is free: Ulrich Beck: A European community based on the principles of cosmopolitan tolerance could form the template for a new global order
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European leaders on Friday tried to revive efforts to adopt the proposed European Union constitution, which many declared dead last year after it was rejected by voters in France and the Netherlands.Comment
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The crisis has sparked widespread grass-roots support and calls for UN intervention.
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Comment is free: Neal Lawson: The challenge is to seize the initiative and create a new public realm that enables a more equal world to take shape.