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		<title>Around Europe 340 &#8211; March 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/around-europe-340-march-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iskrine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CO2 emissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel&#8217;s Supreme Court Adapts International Law in West Bank Quarrying ruling; A View of the EU Budget through Green-Tinted Spectacles; Continued Cognitive Dissonance in EU Energy Effort; Democracy under stress: The global crisis and beyond. Click here to download (PDF &#8211; 1.3 MB) Deutsche Ausgabe – März 2012 Israels Oberster &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/around-europe-340-march-2012/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>QCEA seeks Programme Assistants</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/qcea-seeks-programme-assistants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martina Weitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For full details of vacancies and application process click here]]></description>
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		<title>Consultation response: maritime transport emissions in GHG reduction commitment</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/consult-maritime-transport-emissions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/consult-maritime-transport-emissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Parrish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consultation Responses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Commission (EC)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenhouse gases (GHG)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market-based approach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Member States of the European Union (MS)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shipping affects European waters. In order to keep the global temperature change below two degrees, all aspects of our carbon emissions must be considered. Therefore it is essential that the maritime sector should contribute to European emission reduction efforts. The efforts will not give a comprehensive view if maritime emissions &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/consult-maritime-transport-emissions/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Consultation response: more Sustainable Consumption and Production</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/consult-morescp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/consult-morescp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Parrish</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qcea.org/?p=4993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While we welcome the Commission&#8217;s flagship initiative entitled A resource-efficient Europe, and more sustainable consumption and production policy development, we still consider the effort to be too vague. We also do not understand why the resource efficiency strategy has been included in the Europe 2020 Strategy. We consider the former &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/04/consult-morescp/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recommendations to the Foreign Affairs Council on Palestine Israel released</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/recommendations-to-the-foreign-affairs-council-on-palestine-israel-released/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/recommendations-to-the-foreign-affairs-council-on-palestine-israel-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martina Weitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February 2012, on the basis of cooperation between QCEA, the EAPPI Programme of the World Council of Churches and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories (UN OHCHR OPT), we released a press release with clear recommendations to the European Union &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/recommendations-to-the-foreign-affairs-council-on-palestine-israel-released/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Briefing paper: Horizon 2020 &#8211; reflecting on changes proposed for the new EU research agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-horizon2020-research-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-horizon2020-research-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martina Weitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new QCEA briefing paper addresses the questions which arise from the proposals for the EU research programme for the security agenda, ethics and participation of third countries. What is important for QCEA in examining these proposals in details is the question of how the funding is to be used, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-horizon2020-research-agenda/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Briefing paper: EU security research and peacebuilding – a case of institutional and political disconnect</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-eu-security-research-and-peacebuilding-disconnect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-eu-security-research-and-peacebuilding-disconnect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martina Weitsch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Militarisation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qcea.org/?p=4702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[QCEA has done work on the European Security Research Programme for several years; this was focused initially on making the programme better known in order to demonstrate the involvement of the defence industry in the programme. This briefing paper brings this strand of our work together with research we have &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-eu-security-research-and-peacebuilding-disconnect/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hurry &#8211; Just a Few Places Left on the QCEA Study Tour 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/hurry-just-a-few-places-left-on-the-qcea-study-tour-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/hurry-just-a-few-places-left-on-the-qcea-study-tour-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martina Weitsch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qcea.org/?p=4501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you been wanting to learn more about the work of QCEA or how decision-making at the EU level works? We still have a few places left on our 2012 Study Tour from 14-21 April 2012 but you need to apply now. The Study Tour also visits the European Parliament, the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/hurry-just-a-few-places-left-on-the-qcea-study-tour-2012/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Briefing Paper: the EU Crisis Management Missions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-meu-crisis-missions-palestine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-meu-crisis-missions-palestine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Parrish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Common Defence and Security Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Border Assistance Mission (EU-BAM) Rafah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European External Action Service (EEAS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel-Palestine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.qcea.org/?p=4259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This briefing paper looks at two European Union Crisis Management missions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the EU-BAM Rafah border mission and the European Union Police Co-ordinating Office Palestinian Territories mission, particularly in the context of the Common Defence and Security Policy. Read &#8220;The EU Crisis Management Missions in the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/bp-meu-crisis-missions-palestine/">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Around Europe 339 &#8211; February 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/ae-339-feb2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/ae-339-feb2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Parrish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human rights and Fundamental Freedoms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EEAS: First Year Score Card – Room for Improvement; Election of the new Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe; Daylight Madness: The UK&#8217;s Lacklustre Green Transformation; Council of Europe: Structure, History and Issues in European Politics Click here to dowload (PDF &#8211; 746 KB) Deutsche Ausgabe &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.qcea.org/2012/03/ae-339-feb2012/">More...</a>]]></description>
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