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		<title>From the Chronikles: In the name of equality</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/gender-issues/in-the-name-of-equality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Belgium toys with the idea of allowing mothers to pass on their surnames, is there a way to make naming practices fairer?]]></description>
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		<title>Are we now &#8216;friends&#8217; of al-Qaeda in Libya?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belgium was one of the 'Friends of Libya' in Paris. But does the prime minister realise that these Libyan 'friends' include a former al-Qaeda fighter?
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		<title>Feeling Europe&#8217;s pain</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/european-union/feeling-europes-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All is not well in the old world of organisational paternity, job security and economic rationality. But the silver lining is that we have millions of virtual ‘friends’ to feel our pain.]]></description>
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		<title>Scandinavia: is the far right far off?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home-grown terrorism in Norway, a resumption of border controls in Denmark and an increasingly immigration-weary Sweden. Is right-wing politics taking hold in the once-tolerant Nordic countries?

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		<title>When the chips are down</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/friet-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arab revolutionary fever has spread to Europe as Belgians raise their freedom fries, not to bring down a regime but to ask for one to be formed.]]></description>
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		<title>Baksheesh and social tipping points</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/egypt/baksheesh/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/egypt/baksheesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt's 'baksheesh' culture helps poor people get by and maintains relative social peace, but it encourages subservience.]]></description>
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		<title>Life as an outsider</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/roma/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/roma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the most hated people in Europe, Roma are treated as second-class citizens. Nikolaj Nielsen spent some time with a Roma family.
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		<title>Falling in love&#8230; too literally</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/parachute-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Spurned skydiver murders love rival in Belgium’. Big news in a little country, and a film just waiting to be made.]]></description>
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		<title>Less Catholic than the pope</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/catholic-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/catholic-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['Catholic' education thrives in Belgium, but the decision between principle and pragmatism is not easy when choosing a school.]]></description>
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		<title>Queer times in Belgian politics</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/election-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/election-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The product of an odd political marriage between left wing Belgian unionists and radical Flemish nationalists could be the world’s first openly gay male premier.]]></description>
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