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In the new issue: “Dilemmas in the ballot box” by Giuliano Amato. The new champions: the in depth focus on the so called BRICS, the club of emerging powers, and the MIST countries, the up and coming club.

Giuliano Amato assesses the possible outcomes on the eve of the next European Elections in Spring: what kind of new European Parliament can we expect?

The new champions is the title of the in depth focus on the so called BRICS, the club of emerging powers, and the MIST countries, the up and coming club. The new champions are rich but also very poor, strong but fragile, a melting pot of social and political contradictions that have been highlighted by the recent street demonstrations and clashes in many of these fast growing countries.

The wager is global explains the European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht: Europe must move away from aid programs and start setting up partnerships with the new champions that have now come of age.

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