<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>EurActiv.com / Central Europe / EN</title><link>http://www.euractiv.com/</link><description>Latests Documents</description><category>UNE</category><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:21:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><ttl>5</ttl><managingEditor>editor@euractiv.com</managingEditor><webMaster>webmaster@euractiv.com</webMaster><image><title>EurActiv.com</title><url>http://www.euractiv.com/cssea/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.euractiv.com/</link><width>103</width><height>60</height></image><item><title>Uncertainty grows after first round of Romania 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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been completely overlooked in celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, said Jean-Michel de Waele, professor of political science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in an exclusive interview with EurActiv.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tcm:29-187265-16</guid></item><item><title>Analyst: 'Gorbachev's role has been totally neglected'</title><link>http://www.euractiv.com/en/central-europe/analyst-gorbachev-role-totally-neglected/article-187269?Ref=RSS</link><description>The role of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been completely overlooked in celebrations marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, said Jean-Michel de Waele, professor of political science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in an exclusive interview with EurActiv.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:50:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tcm:29-187269-16</guid></item><item><title>Socialist leader: New member states still adjusting to EU</title><link>http://www.euractiv.com/en/central-europe/socialist-leader-new-member-states-adjusting-eu/article-187280?Ref=RSS</link><description>The EU's decision to enlarge by taking on twelve new members was taken on the understanding that there was a lot of work outstanding, former Party of European Socialists (PES) MEP Jan Marinus Wiersma told EurActiv Slovakia in an exclusive interview.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tcm:29-187280-16</guid></item><item><title>Sitting on the top of the Wall</title><link>http://www.euractiv.com/en/central-europe/sitting-top-wall/article-187255?Ref=RSS</link><description>Ewald Koenig, editor-in-chief of EurActiv Germany, was present in Berlin during the "craziest and luckiest night in German history" when the Wall fell. 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