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	<description>This blog is about the EU's policies, it's political leaders and the more light-hearted aspects of life in Europe</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading: Brussels</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/further-reading-brussels-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanley Pignal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece and the Eurozone: Halcyon no more (Ralph Atkins and Kerin Hope, FT)
French language losing its cachet? Au contraire! (Harvey Morris and Stanley Pignal, FT)
Europe needs to show it has a crisis endgame (Wolfgang Münchau, FT)
EU debt crisis highlights bloc&#8217;s structural weakness (Jack Ewing, IHT)
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		<title>Clear Words Needed This Week from EU Leaders on Greek Crisis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/clear-words-needed-this-week-from-eu-leaders-on-greek-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/clear-words-needed-this-week-from-eu-leaders-on-greek-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Van Rompuy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU economic policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU summits]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s leaders are getting radical.  On Thursday the presidents, prime ministers and chancellors of the European Union will meet for a day of economic policy discussions in Brussels - but not in their normal location, the marble-and-glass Council of Ministers building, famous for its charmless, disinfected atmosphere and its 24km of headache-inducing corridors.  No, this time they will get together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Restless as EU Struggles with its Lisbon New Look</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/world-restless-as-eu-struggles-with-its-lisbon-new-look/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/world-restless-as-eu-struggles-with-its-lisbon-new-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Barroso]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brussels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Commission]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lisbon treaty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=3181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s climate change, foreign policy or the increasingly alarming fiscal crisis, the European Union&#8217;s difficulties can be summed up in one word: disunity.  After December 1, when the EU&#8217;s Lisbon treaty came into force, disunity was supposed to be a thing of the past.  Instead, disunity has proved to be very much a thing of the present.  What&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT video: Ukraine’s big economic chill</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/ft-video-ukraines-big-economic-chill/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/ft-video-ukraines-big-economic-chill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From central Ukraine and capital Kiev, a leading oligarch, a bar owner, a foreign investor and ordinary hard-hit people discuss what the new president needs to do to mend Ukraine&#8217;s broken economy.
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		<title>Further reading: Brussels</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/further-reading-brussels-27/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/further-reading-brussels-27/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanley Pignal</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=3121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Medicine for Europe&#8217;s sinking south (Nouriel Roubini &#38; Arnab Das, FT)
Greek PM signals painful reforms (Kerin Hope &#38; Ralph Atkins, FT)
Ukraine rivals clash amid fraud fears (Stefan Wagstyl &#38; Roman Olearchyk, FT)
Spain is a serious country (A fistful of Euros)
The not-so-safe Eurozone (New York Times)
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		<title>Obama pinpoints some harsh truths about EU summitry</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/obama-pinpoints-some-harsh-truths-about-eu-summitry/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/obama-pinpoints-some-harsh-truths-about-eu-summitry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Ashton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU foreign policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU summits]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US-European relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=3091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s decision not to travel to Spain in May for a US-European Union summit does not come as a great surprise to EU policymakers.  They knew weeks ago that he had gone cool on the idea.  Nonetheless, it will hurt.  It will be read as a signal from the White House that the president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further reading: Brussels</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/further-reading-brussels-26/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/further-reading-brussels-26/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanley Pignal</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=3066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just who are these dark forces attacking Greece? (Charlemagne blog, Brussels)
Greek bailout news (Edward Hugh, A fistful of euros)
EU calls for Athens to cut public sector pay (Tony Barber and Kerin Hope, FT)
UN throws weight behind Cyprus talks (FT reporters, FT)
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		<title>To fix the Greek crisis, deal with the eurozone’s imbalances</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/to-fix-the-greek-crisis-deal-with-the-eurozones-imbalances/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/02/to-fix-the-greek-crisis-deal-with-the-eurozones-imbalances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=3061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The expression &#8220;it never rains but it pours&#8221; may seem inappropriate for a Mediterranean country such as Greece.  But it was the phrase that sprang to mind when I heard last week that Greek tax collectors are planning to go on strike in protest at the government&#8217;s austerity measures.  Like the political manipulation of budget data, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish Cypriot election looms over Cyprus settlement talks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/01/turkish-cypriot-election-looms-over-cyprus-settlement-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/01/turkish-cypriot-election-looms-over-cyprus-settlement-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Enlargement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cyprus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU enlargement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A potentially decisive moment is approaching in the Cyprus settlement talks that started in September 2008.  Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, is to visit the divided island on Sunday and stay there until Tuesday.  He does not, of course, have the authority to impose a settlement or even seriously to bang heads together.  But what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greece ought to borrow a leaf from recession-savaged Ireland</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/01/greece-ought-to-borrow-a-leaf-from-recession-savaged-ireland/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2010/01/greece-ought-to-borrow-a-leaf-from-recession-savaged-ireland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Barber</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economic policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How can Greece dig itself out of crisis?  From the sunny shores of south-eastern Europe, it could do worse than take a look at the windswept, north-western corner of the continent and study what the Irish government is doing.
As I noted last week, Greece, in spite of the disastrous condition of its public finances, has [...]]]></description>
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