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	 <title>Räsänen urges Finnish parties to disclose campaign funding</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:24:00 +0300</pubDate>
	 <link>http://www.kristillisdemokraatit.fi/KD/www/en/newsroom/statements.php?we_objectID=5065</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Ms. Päivi Räsänen, the leader of the Finnish Christian Democrats, challenged all parties to disclose the sources of their European Parliament election campaign funding on a voluntary basis before the poll date. 
- The proposals of the justice ministry's working group on the transparency of party...]]></description>
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	 <title>ECPM condems Belarussian regime</title>
	 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:39:00 +0300</pubDate>
	 <link>http://www.kristillisdemokraatit.fi/KD/www/en/newsroom/statements.php?we_objectID=1731</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Participants of the North-Eastern conference of the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM) support the rights of the Belarusian Christian Democrats (BCD) for political activities and condemn the regime of Belarus that neglects even their basic human rights. BCD and other democratic opposition...]]></description>
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	 <title>Appeal for Christian Refugees</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:46:00 +0300</pubDate>
	 <link>http://www.kristillisdemokraatit.fi/KD/www/en/newsroom/statements.php?we_objectID=1155</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Department of International Protection<BR>UNHCR, HQRSOO<BR>P.O. Box 2500<BR>1211 Geneva 2<BR>Switzerland
According to our sources, there is as a result from the Gulf war about 12 000 christians (assyrians and chaldeans) living as Iraqi&nbsp; refugees in Jordan. According to several sources, it is very difficult or...]]></description>
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	 <title>English Section: Propositions</title>
	 <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
	 <link>http://www.kristillisdemokraatit.fi/KD/www/en/newsroom/statements.php?we_objectID=1041</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[1. More effort should be made to encourage better acceptance of immigrants by society. Recent polls show that there is much racial intolerance, especially among the young. This is reflected not only in verbal abuse and race-related crime but also in the way some officials treat foreigners.<BR>&nbsp;<BR>2....]]></description>
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	 <title>English Section: A short summary of the discussion concerning the goals of KD immigration policy</title>
	 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:52:00 +0300</pubDate>
	 <link>http://www.kristillisdemokraatit.fi/KD/www/en/newsroom/statements.php?we_objectID=961</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[- Integration shall be taken care much better, the first step in integration is a better acceptance by the society.<BR><BR>- Legalization of the degrees should be made easier, people from outside the OECD countries have been forgotten.<BR><BR>- Better employment of immigrants, before workers will be taken from...]]></description>
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	 <title>Statements of the English Section concerning KD proposal to a new programme of the principles</title>
	 <pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 10:33:00 +0300</pubDate>
	 <link>http://www.kristillisdemokraatit.fi/KD/www/en/newsroom/statements.php?we_objectID=1043</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[While we recognise that the document is only a general statement of the Party´s ideology and not an action plan, there is need for far more clarity as to what problems the Party plans to address.
We believe that in order to recruit members we need to be able to show that the Party has something to...]]></description>
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