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	<title>A piece of the World</title>
	<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog</link>
	<description>Politics, anecdotes and maybe some fun from the high north</description>
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		<title>The Norwegian elections and the aftermath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Norwegian election bucked the trend that we are seeing in Europe these days. More and more countries are governed by the Centre-left. It seems like only small countries in the European periphery, like Norway, Portugal and Greece bucks this trend.
The election gave the government a slightly smaller majority than last time, however there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/88</link>
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		<title>The awfull feeling of being powerless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watch TV and I read about what is happening in Gaza. And I get this overwhelming feeling of being powerless. Just sitting there watching kids die, watching Israel perpetrating this gross overuse of power. I wish I could be able to do something to make it stop, that my country and the international society [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/83</link>
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		<title>The Car Industry wins &#8211; again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The EUobserver reports that the car industry in Europe yet again have won the battle agains stricter emission rules. The European Union had originally decided that the average car produced in the EU could not emit more tan 130 grams of CO2 per kilometre by 2012. The date is now pushed to 2015, and fines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/80</link>
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		<title>Congratulations Greenland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, more than 75 percent of the Greenlanders voted for increased self government. Only one area had a no majority. According to the Norwegian daily, VG, many Greenlanders see this as a step towards full independence. The vote has been welcomed by the Danish Primeminister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. According to Jyllandsposten he says (my translation): [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/77</link>
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		<title>The EU and the Arctic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The EU has for a long time taken slight interest in what has been happening on its northern Arctic periphery. That is set to change. The Commission has just released a communication to the parliament and the council on “The European Union and the Arctic Region”. This could be good news, it could be bad.
A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/70</link>
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		<title>Pirates, fish and Somalia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a litle bit strange, but fish and pirate has become a pair of words that belong together. We now longer have pirate ships, we have pirate trawlers. The question is, what links the words pirate and fish with Somalia? 
The media has been full of report of pairates off the coast of Somalia. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/67</link>
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		<title>Is it a real crisis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I have seen this financial crisis unfold. I have had mixed feelings. On one hand, I have not lost any sleep over giant banks and rich financiers loosing some of their clout and some of their money. Also it is good for the poor that oil prices are falling. On the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/59</link>
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		<title>Norway must aid Iceland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iceland has major financial problems. The currency is in free fall, and interest rates rises sharply. Iceland has already nationalised the third largest bank in the country.
This has triggered a debate in Iceland about EU membership and adoption of the euro as currency. I do not not have strong opinions about how Island should arrange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/53</link>
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		<title>The Irish no &#8211; paid for by the United States?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some media, including Der Spiegel and EUObserver reports that it was U.S. neokonservatives that paid for the Irish no-campaign. 
Der Spiegel quoted the French Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet from a meeting in Lyon:
“Europe has powerful enemies on the other side of the Atlantic, gifted with considerable financial means.”
further
He was putting the blame for the Irish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/46</link>
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		<title>The Arctic is melting &#8211; drill for oil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Arctic is melting &#8211; drill for oil. That is the response from the European Commission at least if we are to believe the EUObserver, that writes:
Drilling for oil in the fragile northern environment must go ahead with European financial and political support for the sake of EU energy security, energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs declared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skogholt.org/blog/archives/38</link>
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