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		<title>Germany has a new president</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barely 72 hours after Christian Wulff announced his resignation as German president due to  allegations of corruption when he was a state governor, the country has found a successor.  Yesterday evening Germany&#8217;s main political parties  nominated former East German human rights activist Joachim Gauck to be the country&#8217;s next president. And yet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/02/20/germany-has-a-new-president</link>
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		<title>Tonight Sarkozy will launch re-election bid on French TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all began this morning when the French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched his new personal Twitter account, hours prior to formally declaring on French TV tonight his intention to run for a second term as president. This debut on Twitter would confirm that the social networks are probably going to be at the heart of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/02/15/tonight-sarkozy-will-launch-re-election-bid-on-french-tv</link>
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		<title>Oil, tourism and even a Pope visit: so is Cuba changing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, fifty years ago, the United States began the embargo on Cuba which is still on, something that nobody could have expected to last so long.  It is true that for years, while the Soviet Union was still a political power, the Caribbean island was able to profit from the cold war between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/02/13/oil-tourism-and-even-a-pope-visit-so-is-cuba-changing</link>
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		<title>The prosecution of Baltasar Garzón: an affront of the Spanish courts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a popular joke among Spaniards these days, it says: “In what do you think Bolivia and Spain  are similar?   The answer is that Bolivia has a Department of the Navy but does not have coastline.  Spain has a  Department of Justice but not justice! In itself and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/02/02/the-prosecution-of-baltasar-garzon-an-affront-of-the-spanish-courts</link>
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		<title>Last SOTU address before the elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After all the debates and primaries, upsets and accusations that have been taking place in the Republican primaries and that unfortunately are going to continue for a while yet, one was wondering about Obama&#8217;s approach for the State of the Union address. Yesterday evening we did not have to wait too much to realize the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/01/25/last-sotu-address-before-the-elections</link>
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		<title>Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s downgrades nine European countries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday 13 means in many countries bad luck. France, Austria  and seven other countries in Europe are probably agreeing with that now as yesterday, January the 13, the US based ratings agency Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s cut  France and Austria triple -A rating by one notch to AA+,   and downgraded the other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/01/14/standard-poors-downgrades-nine-european-countries</link>
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		<title>Gingrich accuses Romney of being able to speak French!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elections in the US, specially presidential elections, have always been mystifying for Europeans, though little by little some European  politicians are beginning to copy some aspects of it, like introducing families, and making their lives known to their constituents.  Still there is a lot to catch up if in reality they want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/01/13/gingrich-accuses-romney-of-being-able-to-speak-french</link>
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		<title>French footballer wants to run for president</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This coming April the first round of the French presidential elections will take place, with the two biggest vote winners going through the last and decisive round in early May.  While European elections don&#8217;t play as long as American ones nor are they so ubiquitous on television and all media, the French ones this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/01/10/french-footballer-wants-to-run-for-president</link>
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		<title>Euro below $1.27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was not much talk about the euro crisis during the Christmas holidays.  For a few days we almost pretended everything was well and we could relax.  But now just when many have realized that January is going to be a hard month, never mind that we tried to be careful with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/01/09/euro-below-1-27</link>
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		<title>Mubarak&#8217;s trial resumes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last February, after all the unrest, protests and violence in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak had to leave power and the military took over allegedly to restore calm until a new government was formed.  While many countries, including the US, seemed to accept this, many people were not reassured. Here in Keyboard Politics we wrote an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyboardpolitics.com/2012/01/05/mubaraks-trial-resumes</link>
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