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Eurovision Gave Human Rights a Platform in Azerbaijan

Glenn McMahon | Posted 28.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Loreen, Human Rights, Azerbaijan, Eurovision, Eurovision Human Rights, Estonia, Sweden, Azerbaijan Government Eurovision, UK News
Glenn McMahon

With the English delegation once again returning home from Eurovision with its tail between its legs following a dismal result, calls will only grow louder to pull out of the competition altogether. However, for the more conscientious among us this year's competition has served as far more than just a trashy manufactured pop-fest and it could do so again in the future.

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Why Britain's Out in the Cold

Tiernan Douieb | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Fred Goodwin, Welfare Reform, Euro, Stephen Hester, Estonia, Finland, Cold Weather, Eurozone, David Cameron, Bonuses, Denmark, Talinn, UK Business, UK Politics, UK Comedy, UK Comedy News
Tiernan Douieb

We are told that this has all been done for the benefit of the UK, and to stop us falling into further debt, while the rest of Europe just looks at us as though we are that awkward woman that no matter how many drinks you've bought and compliments you give her, still thinks you don't like her. Sigh.

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Clearly, There Was No German Economic Miracle

Peter Martindale | Posted 08.02.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Sweden, Hungary, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Euro, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Reparations, Eu, Estonia, Finland, Breadbasket, Ireland, Romania, Portugal, Austria, Greece, Czech Republic, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Economic Crisis, Gold, European Union, Netherlands, France, Slovakia, Soviet, European Treaty, Poland, Slovenia, Eurozone, Slav, Malta, Denmark, Spain, UK Politics News
Peter Martindale

The panic behaviour of the German Chancellor and French president, makes it plain to see that both countries are using the economic difficulties of other Eurozone countries and the restructuring of Europe, as a smoke-screen to hide their own systemic economic and social failures.

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Putin Sets Out Plan For Eurasian Union To Match EU

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 05.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Fyodor Lukyanov, Latvia, Lithuania, Eurasian Union, Tajikistan, Vladimir Putin, European Union, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union, Customs Union, UK News

Vladimir Putin has unveiled an ambitious plan to forge a new economic superpower from a clutch of former Soviet states. Writing in Izvestia, Russia...

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