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	<description>The Thursday Briefing is a blog by Tom Redford about green things, especially if they’re political, and even more so if they are to do with Europe. What I write isn’t necessarily representative of any Green Party, and this blog is published from the Netherlands and hosted in Denmark. Finally, I know my sentences are too long; get used to it, I like writing long sentences.</description>
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		<title>All Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that this blog has not been updated recently. I haven&#8217;t given up on the blog, just on my old hosting provider. The blog is now at www.thursdaybriefing.eu, and the RSS feed remains rss.tredford01.co.uk/thursday. If you haven&#8217;t seen a post in the feed titled, &#8220;Palin 2: Return From The Frozen Land&#8221;, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess this is how traditions are established: one is a one-off, two is a repeat, but more than three is a tradition. So, welcome to my fourth annual New Year post. I think it was at the start of 2008 that I first noted the financial turmoil, which makes it nice to see that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tredford01.co.uk/thursday/2010/opinion/new-year-post/</link>
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		<title>Yes We Can (Fix It Later)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t the most immediate reaction to Copenhagen, but it was mostly written in direct reaction to the news coming out of the conclusion of the conference; it&#8217;s just taken a little while for me to have the time to post.
All throughout the Copenhagen Conference, I was trying to remind myself that a week or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tredford01.co.uk/thursday/2009/opinion/yes-we-can-fix-it-later/</link>
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		<title>A Little Pause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m annoyed that the COP15 was scheduled for now. Not for any great political reason, but because I have end of semester exams this week, so I can&#8217;t really write about the Conference—or do much apart from write about Anglo-European relations in 1950 or attempt to comprehend standard deviation and t-tests—until Friday, when I hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want A Danish, Anyone?</title>
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You know that you&#8217;re close to hurting powerful and not completely innocent interests when something that should otherwise be honest, scientific, and above board, takes on an air of sleaze. I am of course referring to the leaked emails I covered on this blog the other day, and the leaked draft &#8216;agreement&#8217; from the Copenhagen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tredford01.co.uk/thursday/2009/opinion/want-a-danish-anyone/</link>
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		<title>Do We Have A &#8216;Real&#8217; Foreign Policy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we have an external action service—basically a diplomatic corps—now, it would seem sensible to ask a particular question: where is Europe? Of course, geographically we&#8217;re stuck on the edge of Asia, next to the Middle East, and above Africa, but politically, where are we?
It&#8217;s been a funny couple of decades. The first years after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Sell Science&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the hacking of the University of East Anglia&#8217;s email system proves anything, it&#8217;s that public opinion, or at least the media&#8217;s opinion, is not &#8216;there&#8217; yet, in terms of recognition of the reality and scientific basis of climate change.
I&#8217;m reminded of a quote from The West Wing, &#8220;you can&#8217;t sell science&#8221;. The allegations made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tredford01.co.uk/thursday/2009/opinion/you-cant-sell-science/</link>
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		<title>Copenhagen</title>
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I had mixed feelings when I watched the opening of the Copenhagen conference—dramatically broadcast in a &#8216;we interrupt normal programming&#8217; format on BBC World News, cutting off a Turkish diplomat mid-sentence on HARDtalk. With a lack of any desire for a legally binding treaty to replace Kyoto in 2012, it is tempting to write off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tredford01.co.uk/thursday/2009/opinion/copenhagen/</link>
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		<title>European Greenery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Constantly talking about the institutional aspects of the EU is getting boring, so it made me happy to see a nice, sort of green and European story in European Voice today. By 2021, there will be a requirement for new buildings to have &#8220;nearly zero emissions&#8221;.
Leaving aside the fact that this only covers new-builds, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tredford01.co.uk/thursday/2009/opinion/european-greenery/</link>
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		<title>A Dose Of New Labour For Europe</title>
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I&#8217;m not looking to discuss any aspect of the foreign policy issues tonight. Tonight is about me having got this job and I now need to sit down with colleagues and work through a whole range of issues&#8230;

More on our new glorious leaders, as Baroness Ashton has, in the video above, spoken to the press. [...]]]></description>
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