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    Long-time journalist, former CNN producer and correspondent, contributing columnist Washington Post, contrib CNN, CNNE, Sr. Columnist World Politics Review. TV talker on world affairs. Saw history unfold with my own eyes in >70 countries.

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    Dave Keating is an American-European journalist based in Brussels covering the European Union and the trials and tribulations of the wider European project.

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