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Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree
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Monday Commentary: The world is on a military spending spree

27 January 2020
It is easy to succumb to the pressures of the arms lobby and to rush into a military spending spree without understanding that there are still alternatives to this, and that these alternatives have not yet been exhausted, argues Dennis Sammut in this week's Monday Commentary on commonspace.eu
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Merkel in Turkey for talks with Erdogan
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Merkel in Turkey for talks with Erdogan

24 January 2020
The German Chancellor joined the Turkish president on Friday morning for the official opening of the new German-Turkish University in Istanbul. The two leaders were expected to hold talks later on a range of regional and international issues.
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Monday Commentary: What if?
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Monday Commentary: What if?

20 January 2020
The Conference on Libya held in Berlin on Sunday (19 January) was high diplomacy at its best. In this week's Monday Commentary Dennis Sammut asks what if the same level of commitment by the top leaders of the top countries of the world is put in solving some of the other big challenges and conflicts?
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Azerbaijan marks 30th anniversary of Black January
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Azerbaijan marks 30th anniversary of Black January

20 January 2020
The events of 20 January marked the final break of Soviet power with the people of Azerbaijan. After 20 January the Communist Party was completely discredited. Azerbaijani statehood was restored by a decision of the Azerbaijani parliament on 18 October 1991 - although independence only followed the collapse of the USSR at the end of that year.
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Radicalisation, Extremism and Violent conflict
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Radicalisation, Extremism and Violent conflict

19 January 2020
Round Table and policy forum held in The Hague on 28 November 2019 to discuss the global proliferation of radical ideologies leading to violence.