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		<title>A future for the UK in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is a slightly edited version of my opening statement in oral evidence I gave on 10 July to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry on the future of the UK government&#8217;s EU policy) It is one of the great ironies of European history that the Member State which has been consistently the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=411&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gambling in the Hague</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A shortened version of this post appears in this month&#8217;s State of the Left Review) Two months ago, the members of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) overwhelmingly voted for Diederik Samsom to be their new leader. Today he is fighting his first general election campaign. Rarely has an opposition leader&#8217;s call for &#8220;elections, now!&#8221; been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=400&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Diederik Samsom save Dutch Labour?</title>
		<link>http://placelux.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/can-diederik-samsom-save-dutch-labour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mvanhulten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This article, which was published in the March edition of Policy Network&#8217;s State of the Left review, is an adapation of an earlier blog post published here.) Last Saturday over 1,000 members of the Dutch Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid, or PvdA) gathered in Rotterdam for a special party conference with just one item [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=367&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double Dutch: how the Rutte government nearly lost the europlot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the start of the current economic crisis the Dutch government has insisted on strict budgetary discipline in troubled eurozone countries &#8211; in particular for Greece. That shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise. After all, the Netherlands is one of the biggest net contributors to the various eurozone rescue packages. This week the fiscally responsible Dutch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=360&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where next for Dutch Labour?</title>
		<link>http://placelux.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/where-next-for-dutch-labour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mvanhulten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yes we Cohen!&#8221; That was how the Dutch Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid, or PvdA) greeted the election of the universally popular mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, as its new leader in the spring of 2010.  On Monday 20 February, after less than two years in the post, with the party more than halved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=352&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Cameron&#8217;s kamikaze act could have been prevented</title>
		<link>http://placelux.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/how-camerons-kamikaze-act-could-have-been-prevented/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mvanhulten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did David Cameron deliberately manoeuvre the UK into splendid isolation last night, or was it an accident that could have been prevented? The latter, if the following account from someone who followed the proceeding closely is to be believed: &#8220;I gather that the UK presented a whole draft protocol to the Council legal service the day before the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=332&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victory for Europe, disaster for Britain</title>
		<link>http://placelux.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/victory-for-europe-disaster-for-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Professor Simon Hix At the EU summit in Brussels yesterday Britain lived up to its century old stereotype of “perfidious albion”; which Wikipedia describes as “a pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations and diplomacy to refer to acts of duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity (with respect to promises made to or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=328&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To get out of this crisis, we need to rebuild Europe from scratch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A reworked version of this blogpost was published as an op-ed in Dutch by de Volkskrant on 24 November 2011. A Spanish translation was published by El Pais on 2 December 2011.) In an op-ed published recently in the Financial Times, Jean-Claude Piris, who is the former chief lawyer for the EU Council of Ministers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=305&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter: the eurocrisis needs a solution, now</title>
		<link>http://placelux.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/open-letter-the-eurocrisis-needs-a-solution-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mvanhulten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The euro crisis needs a solution, now. The current measures are too little and too late and are precipitating global financial turmoil. The euro is far from perfect, as this crisis has revealed. But the answer is to fix its faults rather than allowing it to undermine and perhaps destroy the global financial system. We, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=287&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEPs tell France&#8217;s new Europe minister: give us the right to decide where we meet</title>
		<link>http://placelux.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/meps-tell-frances-new-europe-minister-give-us-the-right-to-decide-where-we-meet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 100 MEPs have signed an open letter to the new French Europe Minister, Jean Leonetti, calling on the French government to let the European Parliament decide where it meets. The letter points out that an absolute majority of MEPs are now on the record as supporting a single seat. Last month, France launched legal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=placelux.wordpress.com&#038;blog=18477486&#038;post=256&#038;subd=placelux&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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