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		<title>Europe betrays democratic ideal over Cuba &#8211; Havel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy promotion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Havel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in White (Damas de Blanco)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By appeasing Cuba&#8217;s communist regime, Europe is betraying the humanist ideal at the core of its political identity, writes former dissident Vaclav Havel.
&#8220;One of the fundamental pillars of Europe&#8217;s political architecture is a strong and enduring belief in the universal validity of equal, universal, and inalienable human rights,&#8221; he says. But, 20 years on from [...]]]></description>
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