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Monthly Archive October, 2007

European Voice: Smart sanctions prove not so clever

October 18, 2007

As an alliance of states built on ‘soft power’, it is perhaps not surprising that the European Union has had ambivalent feelings about sanctions from the very first time it imposed them – against the Soviet Union in response to the suppression of democratic stirrings in Poland in December 1981.
The trade embargo against the Soviet […]

European Voice: Darfur killings leave EU no easy options

October 11, 2007