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| | United States of Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The term 'United States of Europe' (États-Unis d’Europe) was used several times by Victor Hugo, including during a speech at the International Peace Congress held in Paris in 1849 and later at the French National Assembly, on March 1, 1871. | | | The United States of Europe is a name occasionally given to one version of the possible future unification of Europe as a national and sovereign federation of states similar in formation to the United States of America. | | | The term "United States of Europe" was used by Winston Churchill in a famous speech which he delivered in 1946 at the University of Zürich. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades |
| | Meanwhile Emperor Frederick II, who was to be the leader of the crusade, had remained in Europe and continued to importune the pope for new postponements of his departure. | | | At that time Europe was divided into numerous states whose sovereigns were absorbed in tedious and petty territorial disputes while the emperor, in theory the temporal head of Christendom, was wasting his strength in the quarrel over Investitures. | | | Whole armies of pilgrims traversed Europe, and in the valley of the Danube hospices were established where they could replenish their provisions. |
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| | Chapter 2: Security Strategy for Europe and NATO |
| | The Senior Defense Group is co-chaired by the United States and one of the European allies (currently France) on a rotating basis. | | | While NATO's effectiveness should not be judged solely on the degree of success it achieves in the former Yugoslavia, a vigorous role for NATO in the Balkans not only promotes the Alliance's leading role in Europe, but also provides an important means for the members to assert a positive influence in the Balkans. | | | While the vital interests of the United States and its European partners are not directly threatened by conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the partners understand the importance of the issues and the indirect threats to vital areas and interests. |
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| | 1477 CE: Medieval Europe - Charles the Bold of Burgundy is captured by the Swiss, and Louis XI recaptures the lost territory. | | | 1268 CE: Medieval Europe - The military champion of the papacy's crusade against the heirs of Frederick II is Charles of Anjou, who is from the French royal house. | | | The western European empire, based on the alliance between the Frankish monarchy and the Latin Church, provides the image of Western cultural unity for Europeans, though it does not last long. |
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http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/mepage.htm
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| | Time for Kids News Convention for a United Europe |
| | In what was likely a vote of confidence for a more united Europe, the convention began on February 28. | | | Europe is made up of lots of old, established countries with traditions that could prove hard to unite under one union. | | | Their mission: To form a more perfect union - a European Union, that is. During their meeting, known as the Convention on the Future of Europe, various European representatives hope to balance the needs of their separate countries with the power of a united Europe. |
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http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,216188,00.html
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| | The United Europe Foundation |
| | Spain became the first nation to approve the European constitution in a referendum on Sunday, but the emphatic endorsement suggested by the overwhelming margin of victory was diluted by indications of a moderate voter turnout. | | | The future of Ukraine is in Europe", European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said after a meeting with Kiev's new prime minister Yuri Yekhanurov in Brussels. | | | Europe's importing of a "security culture" from the US is putting basic human rights and democratic freedoms at risk, according to a group of 200 European judges and legal experts meeting in France. |
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| | Churchill and the Unification of Europe - The Churchill Centre |
| | He founded the United Europe Movement in Britain, served as its president and sought Labour support for it. | | | In the postwar years, his advocacy of European unification served as a forum for reestablishing his status in his own party, in Britain, and on the international scene. | | | At his own party conference in October he left Britain's relationship with a united Europe undefined and thus received only two dissenting votes. |
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http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=61
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| | europe_-_gs_report_-_final.doc |
| | A further group of congregations in Europe belong to the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. | | | In contrast the British Government, in its 2003 White Paper on Europe, A Constitutional Treaty for the EU The British Approach to the EU IGC, argued that the Treaty should be judged by whether it met key UK goals. | | | In the mid-1990s a new consultative episcopal body was established: the College of Anglican Bishops in Continental Europe (COABICE) which is made up of the serving bishops of the four Anglican jurisdictions. |
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http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/socialpublic/europe_-_gs_report_-_final.doc
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| | USIA: Foreign Media Reaction Report |
| | EUROPE FRANCE: "What To Do With Totalitarian States" Pierre Beyleau observed in right-of-center weekly Le Point (10/4): "For his first diplomatic test, Ambassador Rohatyn is stepping on tricky ground.... | | | Washington has its ambition, and Europe its prestige and dignity, on the line. | | | Europe has never accepted (the D'Amato Act's principles) and state that the Americans are free to impose sanctions, but that they cannot...punish those which do not conform. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Europe |
| | Baltic states and the Baltic Sea The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a term which nowadays refers to three countries in Northern Europe: Estonia Latvia Lithuania Prior to World War II, Finland was sometimes considered, particularly by the Soviet Union, a fourth Baltic state. | | | Benelux Benelux Benelux is the region of Europe comprising Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. | | | The Italian peninsula or the Apennine peninsula is one of the greatest peninsulas of Europe, spanning 1000 km from the Alps in the north, to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Europe
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| | SUSAN WATKINS - CONTINENTAL TREMORS |
| | Speaking at Humboldt University in May 2000, Fischer called for a democratic federation of Europe’s nation-states; a Europe-wide parliament with ‘real legislative powers’; a second chamber, consisting of elected members from national parliaments; a federal government and president, with executive powers; and a founding constitution. | | | The treaty would, in fact, ensure that Europe never had a democratic constitution, federal or otherwise. | | | Europe’s first steps towards a ‘common foreign policy’ demonstrated a similarly provincial outlook, at a time when the cables of Washington’s New World Order were being laid across the globe. |
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| | Media Monitor - Pandering to Old Europe - December 29, 2004 |
| | Buttiglione was "borked" in Europe, for a post on something called the "European Commission," because he is against same-sex marriage, believes that children ought to be raised by mothers and fathers, and is pro-American. | | | The re-elected President is offering a hand in friendship to 'Old Europe,' at the cost of alienating the traditional Catholic constituency so avidly courted the past four years. | | | He writes that Western Europe, the home of the Roman Catholic Church, "has turned its back on religion." The figures are startling: in countries such as Britain, France and Germany, less than 10 percent of the population attends church as often as once a month. |
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| | United States of Europe |
| | Winston Churchill and his son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, led the United Europe Movement, which convened a Congress of Europe at The Hague from May 7 to 10, 1948. | | | Gradually, it was thought, the supranational authorities, supervised by the European Council of Ministers at Brussels and the Assembly in Strasbourg, would administer all the activities of the Continent. | | | The arguments in favor of a United Europe were the same as those advanced for the League: that the chief cause of the just-concluded Great War was "rampant nationalism," and that the only solution was the surrender of certain prerogatives of national sovereignty to a higher international authority. |
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| | Political liberalism - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | American liberalism of the Cold War era was the immediate heir to Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's New Deal and the slightly more distant heir to the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. | | | Liberals at various times have embraced both constitutional monarchy and republican government. | | | While not necessarily a liberal himself, Johnson was a New Deal Democrat and had inherited and retained the overwhelmingly liberal Kennedy cabinet. |
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| | This is essential, not only so that citizens can feel that they are participating in the construction of Europe but also because their opinions are essential for carrying out the reform. | | | Some of Europe's responses to these challenges have already been identified, as in the case of Economic and Monetary Union, achievement of which is a priority for Europe, as agreed in the Maastricht Treaty and ratified by the national parliaments. | | | The next enlargement will be a great opportunity for Europe and will also be different from the previous ones because of the large number of applicant countries and the heterogeneity of their political, economic and social situations. |
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| | United Press International: Walker's World: Europe's election dilemma |
| | Appalled by the steady decline in turnout for the European elections from almost 70 percent in 1979 to 49 percent last time, the various national governments have found ways to lure voters to the polls. | | | He was standing for the new Transparent Europe party, but the fact that Dutch turnout rose by 9 percent (to 39 percent) on the last elections five years ago is hailed by pro-Europeans as a sign that interest in Europe is catching on. | | | If there were any single point at which European voters could directly affect the way Europe is run, or could demonstrate their frustration at the sluggishness of the French and German locomotives of the entire European economy, it has been these elections. |
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| | Telegraph News Europe split as leaders back US on Iraq |
| | The appeal by the leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic is a boost for Mr Blair who has sought to build a European coalition of support for Mr Bush. | | | In their joint appeal, Mr Blair and the other leaders call for cohesion and unity in Europe. | | | They are still smarting after being described by the Bush administration last week as "old Europe" for arguing for more time for the UN inspectors. |
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| | Spain Delivers Quiet Yes in Eu Poll |
| | Denis MacShane, Britain's Europe minister, said: "The Spanish have rejected the appeals of the no camp and have voted in favour of the new treaty. | | | But there will be nerves in chancelleries across Europe as leaders of the other nine countries holding referendums assess their chances of enthusing their voters. | | | With all the votes counted, 77% of voters had approved the constitution, which is meant to simplify the work of the EU. |
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| | Just War and the Construct of the West |
| | Europe's annals of colonialism have prepared it for the range of phenomena associated with the Nazi regime - from industrial murder to racial theories, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. | | | The Concert of Europe was specifically designed to reflect the interests of the Big Powers, establish their borders of expansion in Europe, and create a continental "balance of deterrence". | | | Some members of the political West share certain common values - liberal democracy, separation of church and state, respect for human rights and private property, for instance. |
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| | Western Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During the final stages of WWII the future of the whole of Europe had been decided between the Allies in the Yalta Conference, between the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, the President of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin. | | | Almost all the countries of Western Europe received economical assistance from the United States through the Marshall Plan. | | | Western Europe was largely defined by the Cold War, with the "Iron Curtain" separating it from Eastern Europe (Warsaw Pact countries). |
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| | Expatica - Living in, moving to, or working in the Netherlands, plus Dutch news in English |
| | But Balkenende spoke glowingly over the higher voter turnout, claiming that Europe has become more appealing for the Dutch electorate. | | | Converting Transparent Europe's electoral success into representation in the Dutch Lower House of Parliament, Tweede Kamer, the party would have claimed a substantial hold by gaining 11 seats. | | | The party was shaken this week by the surprise resignation of VVD Education State Secretary Annette Nijs and former VVD leader Hans Dijkstal sharply rebuked the party's anti-immigration stance, likening Van Aartsen to a crime boss. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Europe |
| | He entered on his career in the time of the Carlovingian Mayors of the Palace, who were destined to realize the union of Church and State in Western Europe. | | | A convincing proof of this was the courageous struggle of Europe against the attempted inroads of Islam, and especially the expeditions of conquest to the Holy Land repeatedly undertaken by the various nations of Europe acting together. | | | The Jews of Europe number 9,000,000 or 2.2 per cent; they are to be found chiefly in Russia, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Rumania, and Turkey. |
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| | Western and Northern Europe History and Politics: Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley |
| | At the 2001 Laeken Council, the EU member states decided on the formation of a Convention on the Future of Europe. | | | West Berlin could only be resisted by forcefully isolating it by the creation of the wall which would secure the possibility of peace in Europe. | | | A documentary on the resurgence of fascism and racist violence in Europe, particularly in Germany and Austria. |
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| | People's Daily Online -- Blair takes helm of stormy EU |
| | Much of Blair's position was marked out by public, and political, opinion, said Michael Brutter, a lecturer in European politics at the London School of Economics. | | | Even on a more balanced view, Blair is markedly pro-European by the standards of his country. | | | Fears among fellow EU members that Blair wanted to drastically scale back the EU were a complete misreading of his beliefs, according to Denis MacShane, until last month Blair's minister for Europe. |
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| | Council of Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This treaty is now known as the Statute of the Council of Europe. | | | Belarus held special guest status with the Parliamentary Assembly from September 1992 to January 1997, but this has been suspended as a consequence of the November 1996 constitutional referendum and parliament by-elections which the CoE found to be undemocratic, as well as limits on democratic freedoms such as freedom of expression (cf. | | | The seat of the Council of Europe is in Strasbourg on the Franco-German border. |
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| | Europe: Eclipsing the American Dream? |
| | Europe understands that as multinational corporations are becoming more powerful than governments (even enforcing their will on them, with organizations like the IMF and World Bank), the governments will need the support of CSOs to remain a player. | | | Europe's Green Party — which is on the political fringe in the United States — is well-represented in local and national European governments. | | | The United States is one of only three industrialized nations that doesn't require paid maternity or paternity leave (even unpaid), while in most of Europe, a three-month leave with full salary is standard. |
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| | Stubborn Swedes and 'United' Europe (washingtonpost.com) |
| | If we want moral and financial support from Europe for the transformation of Iraq, for example, we should argue our case -- if it isn't too late -- not just in private meetings with foreign ministers but in public forums, where the voters can hear us. | | | Sometimes the views of Europe's political class, as expressed in the European media, are not identical to the views of the European general public, as expressed in referendums. | | | It has become commonplace to assume that "Europe" is the same thing as the European Union: a dull, predictable, institutional sort of place, run by bureaucrats who lack the passion necessary to understand the war on terrorism, or free-market capitalism, or anything, really, that motivates us on this side of the Atlantic. |
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| | European Union - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | In recent years, considerable efforts have been made to consolidate and simplify the treaties, culminating with the final draft of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. | | | This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young (Macmillan, 1998) ISBN 0333579925 | | | The European Court of Justice and the Parliament's secretariat are based in Luxembourg. |
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| | News Channel - Top Stories - Story |
| | Taking a role in the vanguard of the European Union does not mean joining its single currency, the euro, "come what may", Blair will tell an audience of academics in Birmingham, his official spokesman said. | | | But, in one of his most pro-European speeches to date, the premier will add that Britain's future lies in being a "wholehearted player in Europe", which will give it greater strength and influence on the world stage. | | | The economic tests are jealously guarded by Blair's powerful finance minister, Gordon Brown, who is rumoured to be more cautious on the question of joining the euro. |
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