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	<title>Gideon Rachman's Blog</title>
	
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	<description>This blog covers a wide range of topics, from US foreign policy to the European Union and the "war on terror"</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/further-reading-on-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gideon Rachman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m meant to be working relentlessly on my book. But I just wanted to break off briefly, to draw people&#8217;s attention to this very fine piece on Afghanistan by Christina Lamb. It&#8217;s very well written and moving in parts. But I also found its analysis compelling - not least, because Lamb has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia mulls tapping capital markets to help finance Moscow’s yawning public deficit</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/russia-taps-capital-markets-to-help-finance-moscows-yawning-public-deficit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stefan Wagstyl, the FT&#8217;s eastern Europe editor
Among the many would-be borrowers planning to raise money from the capital markets before the current rally fades is the Russian government.
Alexei Kudrin, finance minister, has been talking to bankers and fund managers in London about a proposed bond issue to help finance Moscow&#8217;s yawning public deficit. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe is wasting its Obama moment</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/europe-is-wasting-its-obama-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gideon is away on book writing leave&#8230; but he has been back in touch about the following study from the European Council on Foreign Relations. He says it is &#8220;one of those rare things - a report on the transatlantic relationship that is actually worth reading.&#8221;
Here is an excerpt:
As EU leaders head to Washington for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan’s election: Relief the saga has ended</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/afghanistans-election-relief-the-saga-has-ended/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/afghanistans-election-relief-the-saga-has-ended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post from the Financial Times looks at the elections in Afghanistan after Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, was declared to have won the country’s presidential elections by the election commission after Abdullah Abdullah, his main rival, withdrew from a planned run-off.]]></description>
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		<title>China has converted me to the importance of the EU</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/china-has-converted-me-to-the-importance-of-the-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/china-has-converted-me-to-the-importance-of-the-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/?p=2881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post from the Financial Times looks at China's relations with the EU and the likely contenders - such as Tony Blair and Jean-Claude Juncker - for the role of EU president. ]]></description>
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		<title>This blog is about to change radically</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/this-blog-is-about-to-change-radically/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/this-blog-is-about-to-change-radically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gideon Rachman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[That is because I&#8217;m disappearing for two months, to finish a book. (About international politics, amazingly enough). To ensure maximum concentration, I am abandoning not just the column - but also the blog. I will return to normal duties at the beginning of January.
In the meantime, a group of my colleagues have kindly agreed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT video: David Miliband interview</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/ft-video-david-miliband-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/ft-video-david-miliband-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Miliband, British foreign secretary, ]]></description>
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		<title>Why is US unemployment so high?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/why-is-us-unemployment-so-high/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/why-is-us-unemployment-so-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gideon Rachman</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/?p=2816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For most of the past twenty years, high levels of unemployment in Europe have been a source of shame and concern for European policymakers. Conversely, the Americans have revelled in the extraordinary job-creating US economy. Whenever Europeans defended their welfare states, or poined to inequality in the US, the Americans had a ready riposte - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An insight into the Sarko presidency</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/an-insight-into-the-sarko-presidency/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/an-insight-into-the-sarko-presidency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gideon Rachman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have not yet made it to p.24 of the second section (UK edition) of today&#8217;s FT, may I bring your attention to what seems to the single most amusing/interesting fact in today&#8217;s paper.
Paul Betts in his European View notes that, during the French EU presidency, France hosted a three day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miliband and the Age of Continents</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/miliband-and-the-age-of-continents/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/10/miliband-and-the-age-of-continents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gideon Rachman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, has been making the running in the efforts to secure the EU council presidency for his old boss, Tony Blair. (Miliband was the head of the Downing Street policy unit under Blair.) The Charlemagne blog suggests, amusingly, that Miliband&#8217;s heart may not be in it - and that he [...]]]></description>
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