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The leaders of large European countries must re-launch a vision for a greater Europe, beyond debates on the enlargement of the European Union. Helped by the G20 over which he will soon be presiding, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has the opportunity to launch important geopolitical initiatives, moving on from controversies over the Roma and Turkey. Sarkozy’s meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Deauville, France, on Oct. 19 acts as a reminder of the usefulness of Euro-Russian cooperation going beyond security issues. Around 250 million people live in Turkey and the ex-Soviet states that are members of the Council of Europe. Added to the 500 million European Union citizens, this creates a space of 750 million citizens united by geography, history and democratic aspirations, as well as Asian competition and terrorist threats. Their economies, which are growing strongly, feed Europe’s exports and Europe’s prosperity. A clear perspecti...

Report: Media freedom shrinks in Rwanda, Syria UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Rwanda and Syria joined a list of the 10 most repressive countries toward journalists alongside North Korea, Myanmar, China and Iran, according to a global media watchdog which warned Tuesday that the crackdown on reporters in authoritarian countries is worsening. Reporters Without Borders said press freedom in the 10 countries -- including Yemen, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Eritrea -- continues to deteriorate. "It is getting harder to say which is worse than the other," the group said, with all 10 persecuting the media and blocking news and information to their citizens. The Paris-based organization said Cuba was not in the bottom 10 for the first time since the index was created in 2002, due mainly to the release of 14 journalists and 22 activists over the summer. But it said the political dissidents and journalists still have to deal with censorship and repression by the Communist government on a dai...