The European Council on Foreign Relations, a newcomer on the scene, employs its fair share of ex or quasi-hacks.

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Ulrike Guerot, from the European Council on Foreign Relations and writing from Berlin, said "this will backfire on us terribly in two or three years' time".

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The National Front has been well-entrenched in France's political life for decades under Jean-Marie Le Pen before his daughter Marine took charge last year, said Thomas Klau of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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The National Front has been well entrenched in France's political life for decades, under Jean-Marie Le Pen before his daughter Marine took charge last year, said Thomas Klau, of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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As Andrew Wilson of the European Council on Foreign Relations argues, the West should avoid giving the impression that it would be happy for Mr Yanukovich to undercut freedom in the name of restoring stability.

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The continuing uncertainty surrounding the scandal "points towards the fact that for the first time in decades we might be observing a fight for the very future of China's economic, social and political development, " wrote Thomas Koenig, coordinator of the China Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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