These may include non-Europeans, as long as renewable energy produced by them is imported back to Europe.

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Europeans and Americans from non-Muslim backgrounds do not fit the terrorist profile.

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Tudjman wants the Europeans to extend their non-military observer mission, now limited to Slovenia, to his republic as a sign that foreign countries will help Croatia stand up to the Yugoslav army.

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And so Europeans should be sceptical when non-democratic regimes say they can self-correct without independent checks and balances.

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Turkey, increasingly turning away from Europe, is on the road to becoming a more effective force in the Middle East than is the EU. China and India are competing to replace the Europeans as the most important non-U.S. economic actor in Africa.

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As the post-independence history of both Lebanon and Israel shows, the Europeans eventually attenuated their support for non-Arab governments.

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And their relationship with the ten non-euro outsiders, ranging from eurosceptical Britain to east Europeans who are keen to join the single currency, has been thrown into doubt.

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It is estimated that 1 in every 300 to 1 in every 500 Northern Europeans have some form of it, usually with relatively mild non-specific abdominal symptoms.

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But experts at Oxford University's Migration Observatory said that Thursday's figures showed the government would have to cut non-EU migration by 70% to meet its target, unless fewer Europeans arrived and more people left.

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And as for the holier-than-thou Europeans, their targets and declarations of principles sound good, say sceptics, but are non-binding.

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