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John Kampfner: Who will fight Europe’s last dictator?
On the morning after elections were rigged in Europe’s last dictatorship and KGB thugs beat up and arrested presidential candidates, the home page of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website led with a tribute to Brian Hanrahan and a warning about the weather.
UKIP Marta Andreasen MEP – MEPs vote for payrise at this time is a disgrace ! (december 2009)

On the Brink of European Patent Law: Contributions by Dutch, EPO, German and UK Judges and Attorneys $66.98 This publication contains conference papers written by leading patent judges, academics, and practicing lawyers from Germany, England, and The Netherlands, as well as by members of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office. The book’s topics – such as scope of protection, partial revocation, inventive step, prosecution history, and contributory infringement – are to a large extent harmoni…

Rabelais and Bakhtin: Popular Culture in Gargantua and Pantagruel $16.40 In Rabelais and Bakhtin, Richard M. Berrong demonstrates both the historical and textual weaknesses of the argument advanced by Mikhail Bakhtin and his influential study Rabelais and His World. The publication of Bakhtin’s book in the West in the late 1960s brought both Rabelais and Bakhtin to the attention of students interested in the “New Criticism” in literature. Bakhtin agrued that the key to…

European Financial Markets: The Effects of European Union Membership on Central and Eastern European Equity Markets (Contributions to Economics) $84.34 EU membership involves political and economic reforms which influence financial markets in the new member states. This study empirically explores and quantifies the effects of EU accession on the risk and return of equity markets in eight Central and Eastern European markets joining the EU in 2004. The study also incorporates a review of how the influence of macroeconomic variables and…