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	<title>EU Australia Online</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>France Reduces Its Smokers</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/09/07/france-reduces-its-smokers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guillaume Benoist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>France</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Since the 1st February 2007, in France, it is forbidden to smoke in all close and open public places, to some exceptions: casinos, cafés, hotels, restaurants and some others.

The 1st January 2008 it will be totally illegal to smoke in public places. We can already ask ourselves if the existing measures to tackle tobacco consumption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway Resists Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/09/07/norway-resists-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Tobin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Norway is predicted to have &#8220;the world’s smallest economic downturn&#8221; next year amid a global recession, reported Statistics Norway.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has also highlighted a similar outcome for Australia. Grace Tobin spoke to Norwegian Ambassador Lars A. Wensell about the two economies.
 
 
 
NORWAY’S STEADY ECONOMY
Ambassador Wensell is confident about Norway’s financial future, despite the loss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extraordinary EU Summit On The Situation In Georgia</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/09/06/extraordinary-eu-summit-on-the-situation-in-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/09/06/extraordinary-eu-summit-on-the-situation-in-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monique Ross</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>Military-NATO</category>
	<category>Georgia</category>
	<category>Russia</category>
	<category>European Parliament</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  

An extraordinary European Council summit in Brussels on September 1 ended without sanctions against Russia, though the 27-nation bloc unanimously condemned Russia’s decision to recognise the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and offered comprehensive support to Georgia.
The emergency summit, held in response to the conflict between Georgia and Russia, condemned Russia’s unilateral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Develops Conscience Over Uranium Sale To Russia</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/09/05/australia-develops-conscience-over-uranium-sale-to-russia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/09/05/australia-develops-conscience-over-uranium-sale-to-russia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Challis</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Russia</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canberra has raised concerns this week over its current deal with Moscow to sell uranium for “peaceful purposes”.

The recent conflict in Georgia has sparked Federal Parliaments Treaties Committee to investigate a proposed treaty that would limit Russia’s use of nuclear energy for “peaceful purposes” only.
The deal is currently under strict guidelines that uranium can only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Olympic Triumph</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/08/30/eu-olympic-triumph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Duffield</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>Sports</category>
	<category>Commentary</category>
	<category>Opinion</category>
	<category>Bulgaria</category>
	<category>Romania</category>
	<category>Georgia</category>
	<category>Russia</category>
	<category>China</category>
	<category>India</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the European Union won the Olympic Games hands down.
Had the twenty-seven countries’ medals tally been aggregated, in the manner of, say, the Soviet Union in days gone by, world Olympic sports domination would be close to no-contest.
It might be a tribute to sports culture, good policy on health and fitness, or a plain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karadzic, Rwanda: Bad Times Remembered</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/08/06/karadzic-rwanda-bad-times-remembered/</link>
		<comments>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/08/06/karadzic-rwanda-bad-times-remembered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EUEditor</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>Investigations</category>
	<category>Crime</category>
	<category>France</category>
	<category>Serbia</category>
	<category>EU Expansion</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New efforts are made to bring to justice, men wanted for mass murder in Bosnia; and an inquiry in Rwanda, into that country&#8217;s genocide, points a finger of blame at France. 
PRESSURE ON SERB FUGITIVES TO TURN THEMSELVES IN
The Serbian government has called on the two fugitives from the civil war still at large, Goran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Solzhenitsyn</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/08/06/alexander-solzhenitsyn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/08/06/alexander-solzhenitsyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Duffield</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>Human Rights</category>
	<category>Russia</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The persecuted writer who informed on  Soviet state terror has been lauded in his home country, at the end of his life.  
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was buried in Moscow (6.6.08) attended by a Russian Army honour guard and leaders of the former Soviet state.
Mikhail Gorbachev said the Nobel Prize winning novelist had been “able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Anzac Soldier Identified In Flanders</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/07/04/another-anzac-soldier-identified-in-flanders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/07/04/another-anzac-soldier-identified-in-flanders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Life Itself</category>
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>Military-NATO</category>
	<category>New Zealand</category>
	<category>Belgium</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A forensic laboratory in Belgium has confirmed the identity of a third soldier from  the First World war, whose body was found last year, with four others, near the town of Ieper.
Susie Lipscomb reports from Flanders  Fields:
The discovery was disclosed to EUAustralia by one of the prime movers in the search for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Pressure On The Fiji Junta</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/07/03/new-pressure-on-the-fiji-junta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/07/03/new-pressure-on-the-fiji-junta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Duffield</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Diplomacy</category>
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>Commentary</category>
	<category>New Zealand</category>
	<category>Human Rights</category>
	<category>Afghanistan</category>
	<category>Sugar</category>
	<category>ACP Pacific</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENTARY: Things may be beginning to move quickly in the international campaign to get Fiji back to democratic government, though the military leader, Frank Bainimarama (picture), has continued to resist change.
He has been able to negotiate the appointment of an Acting High Commissioner in Canberra, announced this week, but continues to face increasingly strong demands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Row “Disastrous” For Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/07/03/eu-row-%e2%80%9cdisastrous%e2%80%9d-for-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.euaustralia.com/2008/07/03/eu-row-%e2%80%9cdisastrous%e2%80%9d-for-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Duffield</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Farm Trade</category>
	<category>Diplomacy</category>
	<category>Australia and EU</category>
	<category>Opinion</category>
	<category>France</category>
	<category>Czech Republic</category>
	<category>Poland</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPINION: An open row between the powerful French President and the European Commission  has posed a new threat to international trade deals where Australia has high stakes.
As Lee Duffield reports from Brussels, the new development has upset arrangements that the Australian government wants &#8212; and in Europe it has brought on a new political [...]]]></description>
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