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	<title>Brussels blog</title>
	
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	<description>News on the European Union from the Financial Times</description>
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		<title>[UPDATED] On Greece, a commission cacophony</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/on-greece-a-cacophony-of-commissioners/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/on-greece-a-cacophony-of-commissioners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Spiegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sovereign debt crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE 2] Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager was asked about Kroes&#8217; comments during the government&#8217;s regular parliamentary question time Tuesday. De Jager said that while the contagion risk in the eurozone has decreased over the last year because &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/on-greece-a-cacophony-of-commissioners/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"[UPDATED] On Greece, a commission cacophony"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Merkel, Barnier and the doomed DB-NYSE merger</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/merkel-barnier-and-the-doomed-dbnyse-merger/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/merkel-barnier-and-the-doomed-dbnyse-merger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Barker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michel Barnier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext exchange mega-merger is dead, the objections of competition officials prevailed, but it followed a tremendous political tussle in Brussels, full of intrigue and skulduggery. Here are some of the snippets from the final days: &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/merkel-barnier-and-the-doomed-dbnyse-merger/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Merkel, Barnier and the doomed DB-NYSE merger"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Greece viewer’s guide: What are we waiting for?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/greece-viewers-guide-what-are-we-waiting-for/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/greece-viewers-guide-what-are-we-waiting-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Spiegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sovereign debt crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=20921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the week comes to an end, we seem no closer to a deal to sort out Greece&#8217;s troubles than we were when it started. With rumours of a deal a daily (hourly?) occurrence, and questions over whether eurozone finance &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/greece-viewers-guide-what-are-we-waiting-for/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Greece viewer&#8217;s guide: What are we waiting for?"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s the highest-profile European Commissioner?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/whos-the-highest-profile-european-commissioner/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/whos-the-highest-profile-european-commissioner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Spiegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Ashton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Manuel Barroso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michel Barnier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olli Rehn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=20831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Brussels, being a member of the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, is about as high as an official can climb in the eurocracy. But just how well are those Brussels luminaries known back in their home countries? Thanks &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/whos-the-highest-profile-european-commissioner/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Who&#8217;s the highest-profile European Commissioner?"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The EU gas crisis that wasn’t</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/the-eu-gas-crisis-that-wasnt/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/the-eu-gas-crisis-that-wasnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Chaffin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=20801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When word filtered out on Tuesday that Russia’s Gazprom would be capping its gas shipments to the European Union, a shiver went through an unusually frigid Brussels. After two major supply cuts in the last ten years – the most &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/the-eu-gas-crisis-that-wasnt/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"The EU gas crisis that wasn&#8217;t"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Portugal really the next Greece?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/is-portugal-really-the-next-greece/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/is-portugal-really-the-next-greece/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Spiegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sovereign debt crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=20711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As financial markets watch with nervous anticipation the outcome of the tense negotiations over Greece’s debt restructuring, there is clear evidence that bond investors believe Portugal could be next, despite repeated insistence by European leaders that Greece is “an exceptional &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/02/is-portugal-really-the-next-greece/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Is Portugal really the next Greece?"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A striking coincidence for Monday’s EU summit</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/a-striking-coincidence-for-mondays-eu-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/a-striking-coincidence-for-mondays-eu-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanley Pignal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Monday’s meeting of EU leaders is meant to focus on growth and jobs, which makes it all the more ironic that it will likely be heavily disrupted by a general strike called by Belgian unions on the same day. The &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/a-striking-coincidence-for-mondays-eu-summit/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"A striking coincidence for Monday&#8217;s EU summit"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>In big Obama speech, a European absence</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/in-big-obama-speech-a-european-absence/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/in-big-obama-speech-a-european-absence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Spiegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sovereign debt crisis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/?p=20551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The news overnight focused on President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address. For the Brussels crowd, the most interesting thing in the speech may have been what was not in the speech: Europe. Despite the ongoing eurozone crisis, &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/in-big-obama-speech-a-european-absence/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"In big Obama speech, a European absence"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Steelie Neelie takes on the Hungarians</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/steelie-neelie-takes-on-the-hungarians/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/steelie-neelie-takes-on-the-hungarians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanley Pignal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viktor Orban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Viktor Orban is in Brussels today on the second part of a charm offensive designed to cool tensions between Budapest and the European Union. Last week he flattered the European parliament by dropping in on its second home in Strasbourg &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/steelie-neelie-takes-on-the-hungarians/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Steelie Neelie takes on the Hungarians"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Hungarian: Orban faces more heat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/the-daily-hungarian-orban-faces-more-heat/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/the-daily-hungarian-orban-faces-more-heat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Spiegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU Parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viktor Orban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The buzz around Brussels since Viktor Orban’s appearance before the European parliament Wednesday has been that the Hungarian prime minister got the better of the parliamentarians, coming across as conciliatory and reasonable in the face of occasionally hectoring MEPs. But &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2012/01/the-daily-hungarian-orban-faces-more-heat/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"The Daily Hungarian: Orban faces more heat"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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