Global Geopolitical Notes

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Carney questioned by MPs, while EU leaders head to Brussels for another bout of budget negotiations

 "EU leaders will be heading to Brussels today for what is likely to be another gruelling summit to discuss the region's trillion-euro budget. The talks will pit Britain against France, after French president François Hollande singled out the UK as the biggest obstacle to a breakthrough agreement."

 "This week's summit follows a failed first attempt to reach a deal on the budget in November, with the British arguing for further reductions of at least €30bn (£26bn) on the overall package of €973bn proposed by Herman Van Rompuy, the summit chair."

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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS AJ Correspondents DOHA, Qatar, Feb 06 (Al Jazeera) - Tunisia's prime minister has said that he will dissolve the Islamist-led government and form a national unity administration, following the killing...

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's ruling Islamists dissolved the government on Wednesday and promised rapid elections in a bid to calm the biggest street protests since the revolution two years ago, sparked by the killing of an opposition leader.

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More than 20 European nations offered support to covert CIA operations to kidnap terror suspects - but many Western countries are conspicuously absent from the list of the 54 states which took part in extraordinary rendition, according to a new...

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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Mehdi Lazar[1] and Sidi-Mohammed Nehad[2] According to a recent survey conducted by the Arab Barometer, 84.5% of Algerians are not interested in politics and 52% do not have faith in the political...

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