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- Category: November 2012
- Created on 26 November 2012
By Geoffrey Paul, Middle East Specialist Based in London
Coincidence or historical irony? Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas goes to the UN General Assembly on Thursday to seek an upgrade in the international status of Palestine from “permanent observer” at the UN to “non-member observer state,” the same status as enjoyed by the Vatican. His bid comes 65 years to the day since, on November 29, 1947, the UN passed a resolution calling for the establishment of separate Arab and Jewish states in the British mandated territory of Palestine.
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- Category: EA September 2012
- Created on 25 September 2012
The EU has made more headlines in the American media this year than perhaps at any time in its history. With markets and governments jittery about the future of the EU single currency, the euro, there has been a flurry of EU summits peppered with seemingly endless talks on bailout terms and treaty changes. And the future of the EU has been in play.
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- Category: EA October 2011
- Created on 02 November 2011
Europe is moving toward a big expansion in its economic assistance to North Africa in the form of 
development investments by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Starting with Egypt, the countries of “the Arab spring” stand to receive aid potentially amounting to tens of billions of euros from this London-based source.
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- Category: EA July 2011
- Created on 27 July 2011
Presidents, prime ministers and sundry other officials from the Middle East are frantically working on European (and U.S.) officials this summer advocating for and against the proposed UN General Assembly vote this fall to accept Palestine as a member state in the world body.
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- Category: EA July 2011
- Created on 25 July 2011
If and when Gaddafi departs, the violent disorder that gripped Baghdad
after Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003 risks being replayed in Tripoli and elsewhere. Hence, the international community should be prepared to assist Libya’s Transitional National Council to maintain basic security. But who, precisely, will lead the international community in this effort?
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