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Semo, Marc

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Libération - France | 02/07/2008

A hard blow for Paris

Libération newspaper reflects on the effect the Polish president's refusal may have on the French EU Council presidency: "The catastrophe continues. At least so it seems. Just a few hours after yesterday's start to the French EU Council presidency, the conservative Polish President Lech Kaczyński ... announced he will not sign the Treaty of Lisbon. ... This is another hard blow for Paris, where hopes were high that a crisis could be avoided and that the eight countries that have not officially ratified this document ... would remain immune to the No bug."

La Liberté - Switzerland | 29/08/2006

The series of attacks in Turkey

"Even if it remains at a relatively low level of intensity, this conflict risks complicating Turkey's march towards the European Union", explains Marco Semo. "Under pressure from Brussels, reforms have legalised the cultural rights of minorities, including the use of Kurdish language in the media. These changes are judged insufficient by part of the Kurdish population, notably in the south-east. Last April violent riots broke out in Diyarbakir and the demonstrators, including numerous adolescents, shouted slogans demanding the liberation of Abdullah Ocalan. From the depths of his prison, the leader of the PKK continues to direct what is left of his organisation with an iron hand. By demonstrating his power to disturb, he hopes to impose himself as the uncontestable mouthpiece of all solutions concerning Kurdish issues in Turkey, though the state refuses any negotiations with 'terrorists'."

Libération - France | 23/01/2006

Kosovo's future after Rugova's death

The disappearance of the man nicknamed 'The Balkan Ghandi' for his strategy of non-violence makes the outcome of these discussions a little more perilous. Because it was Rugova alone - 'the father of the nation' - who had the requisite prestige to convince an Albanian population that is increasingly impatient to have its own state, to accept concessions," writes Marc Semo, the deputy editor of the daily's foreign service. His party, triumphant in the post-war period, "is in danger of not surviving the death of its founder. Most of the party's leading figures, tired of their chief's authoritarianism, have left and those who remain are tearing each other to pieces against a backdrop of widespread corruption."

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