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	<title>Crikey &#187; Europe</title>
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		<title>Guilty confessions of an Australian republican</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/politics-and-policies-of-prince-charles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/politics-and-policies-of-prince-charles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Republican Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prince Charles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Australian republicans, Prince Charles has often been seen as an easy target, writes freelancer <b>David Ritter</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scottish independence: Salmond still swimming upstream</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/scottish-independence-salmond-still-swimming-upstream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/scottish-independence-salmond-still-swimming-upstream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Salmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scottish independence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are two important questions arising out of the possibility of a Scottish republic, writes <b>Keshia Jacotine</b>, who researches and writes about European and Scottish politics.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>RBA could increase rates if there&#8217;s a sharp rise in inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-could-increase-rates-if-theres-a-sharp-rise-in-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-could-increase-rates-if-theres-a-sharp-rise-in-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big four banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece default]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US dollar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of mea culpas this morning from business economists and media pundits who got the Reserve Bank rate decision horribly wrong yesterday, write <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: trouble in a carry trade paradise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-rates-on-hold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/rba-rates-on-hold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big four banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european central bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Federal Reserve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Keynesian purists are all clutching their foreheads, but actually it’s pretty fabulous that Australia’s politicians are competing with each other to promise budget surpluses.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Costa Concordia on the scrapheap of the daily news cycle</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/costa-concordia-on-the-scrapheap-of-the-daily-news-cycle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/costa-concordia-on-the-scrapheap-of-the-daily-news-cycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captain Schettino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Concordia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Italians braced for another big freeze, the Costa Concordia cruise ship seems to have been relegated to the scrapheap of our fast-changing  daily news cycle, writes <b>Jo McKenna</b>, a Rome-based freelance journalist.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wielding UN veto, Putin misreads the situation in Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/putin-veto-russia-syria</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/putin-veto-russia-syria#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vladimir putin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian government's PR machine went into overdrive to try and explain why president-in-wait Vladimir Putin vetoed a UN resolution against violence in Syria, which was a badly misjudged decision, writes <b>David Hearst</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/putin-veto-russia-syria/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brussels is summit of a contrast, Trappist bier notwithstanding</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/03/brussels-is-summit-of-a-contrast-trappist-bier-notwithstanding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/03/brussels-is-summit-of-a-contrast-trappist-bier-notwithstanding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belgium economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brussels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brussels resembles a mini-state unto itself, with demography, culture and politics a thing apart from the rest of the nation, freelance writer <b>David Ritter</b> reports from Brussels.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/03/brussels-is-summit-of-a-contrast-trappist-bier-notwithstanding/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Death, violence and protests: chaos continues in Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/201222174712848617.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/201222174712848617.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protests in egypt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After violent football riots killed 71 people, nearly 10,000 Egyptians took to the streets on Thursday demanding retribution, reports <em>Al Jazeera</em>.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Only faint hope for a deal with Iran on nukes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/30/only-faint-hope-for-a-deal-with-iran-on-nukes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/30/only-faint-hope-for-a-deal-with-iran-on-nukes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newt gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pauline Hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us presidential race]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a couple of months things have been looking pretty bleak on the Iranian front.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/30/only-faint-hope-for-a-deal-with-iran-on-nukes/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Welcome to the bizarro parallel universe that is UK politics</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/27/welcome-to-the-bizarro-parallel-universe-that-is-uk-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/27/welcome-to-the-bizarro-parallel-universe-that-is-uk-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The government of the United Kingdom has pulled off one of the great political con jobs, writes <b>David Ritter</b> from London.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/27/welcome-to-the-bizarro-parallel-universe-that-is-uk-politics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Croatia turn up late to EU party</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/23/bienvenue-croatia/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/23/bienvenue-croatia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[croatia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend Croatia took to the polls to vote on whether the country could proceed towards accession into the European Union. With almost all votes counted, 66 percent of Croats supported membership, writes <b>Keshia Jacotine</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/23/bienvenue-croatia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The locals are adamant: cruise skipper &#8216;had head up his arse&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/23/giglio-island-environment-concerns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/23/giglio-island-environment-concerns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captain Schettino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Concordia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cruise ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L'Aquila earthquake]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New questions are being asked about whether the blame for the disaster should be shared between captain Franco Schettino and the owner of the vessel, Costa Cruises, writes <b>Josephine McKenna</b>, a freelance journalist in Giglio.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/23/giglio-island-environment-concerns/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Contrasting reactions to friendly fire in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/21/contrasting-reactions-to-having-soldiers-shot-by-afghan-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/21/contrasting-reactions-to-having-soldiers-shot-by-afghan-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[France has suspended all operations with the Afghan army after four French troops were killed in friendly fire -- a stark comparison to Julia Gillard's reaction to three Aussies being shot last November, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/21/contrasting-reactions-to-having-soldiers-shot-by-afghan-allies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>As Capt Chicken sips espresso with mum, rescuers search for dead</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/as-capt-chicken-sips-espresso-with-mum-rescuers-search-for-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/as-capt-chicken-sips-espresso-with-mum-rescuers-search-for-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captain Schettino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Concordia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giglio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Captain Francesco Schettino kicks back with an espresso in Naples, an army is working to clean up the mess that he left behind, writes <b>Jo McKenna</b> from the Italian island of Giglio.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/20/as-capt-chicken-sips-espresso-with-mum-rescuers-search-for-dead/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Surveilling discontent: Germany keeps a watch on the far-right</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/19/surveilling-discontent-germany-keeps-a-watch-on-the-far-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/19/surveilling-discontent-germany-keeps-a-watch-on-the-far-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anders Breivik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neo-nazis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The German government has approved a plan to create a database of far-right extremists, as a response to the discovery of a neo-Nazi cell believed to be responsible for a string of murders.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/19/surveilling-discontent-germany-keeps-a-watch-on-the-far-right/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doing a Schettino</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/19/crikey-says-doing-a-schettino/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/19/crikey-says-doing-a-schettino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Captain Schettino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Concordia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The captain of the Costa Concordia's leadership qualities are not unlike the kind we're seeing from European leaders at the moment.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Italy turning a blind eye has become an artform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/in-italy-turning-a-blind-eye-has-become-an-artform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/in-italy-turning-a-blind-eye-has-become-an-artform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italy economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mafia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Monti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Italy's credit rating may be heading south and plenty of businesses are struggling to survive, but in a country where so much is hidden, there is often growth where you don’t see it, writes <b>Jo McKenna</b>, a Rome-based freelance journalist.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/in-italy-turning-a-blind-eye-has-become-an-artform/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Margaret Thatcher, between myth and politics</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/margaret-thatcher-between-myth-and-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/margaret-thatcher-between-myth-and-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film & TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A sympathetic film portrayal of Britain’s most divisive modern prime minister fits a broader mood of reappraisal of her years in power, <b>David Hayes</b>, deputy editor of openDemocracy, writes at <a href="http://www.inside.org.au"><em>Inside Story</em></a>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sarkozy far from a cert for French presidency</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/14/betting-against-president-sarkozy-in-france/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/14/betting-against-president-sarkozy-in-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 France election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Strong showings in recent opinion polls by the French far-right National Front suggest that Nicolas Sarkozy is far from a certainty to make the final run-off election for the French presidency, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/14/betting-against-president-sarkozy-in-france/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Big trouble in Ital(ly) Chinatown</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/12/big-trouble-in-itally-chinatown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/12/big-trouble-in-itally-chinatown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Monti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street violence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=268136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese shopkeeper and his nine-month-old baby Joy were brutally gunned down in a suburb of Rome in a robbery that went horribly wrong, writes <b>Josephine McKenna</b>, a freelance journalist in Rome.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/12/big-trouble-in-itally-chinatown/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scots contemplate an independent future</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/11/scots-contemplate-an-independent-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/11/scots-contemplate-an-independent-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Salmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex Salmond wants to be remembered as the founder of a new nation, but if he lets Cameron outmanoeuvre him on a referendum, then it could be a long time before Scotland gets another chance.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/11/scots-contemplate-an-independent-future/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Greece debt crisis: even finding aspirin has become a headache</title>
		<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/greek-crisis-has-pharmacists-pleading-for-aspirin-as-drug-supply-dries-up.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/greek-crisis-has-pharmacists-pleading-for-aspirin-as-drug-supply-dries-up.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece debt crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Strained government finances are partly to blame for a paucity of aspirin in Greece. The country's financial crisis has spawned a frightening reduction in access to medical care, writes <b>Naomi Kresge</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/greek-crisis-has-pharmacists-pleading-for-aspirin-as-drug-supply-dries-up.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Economic war&#8217;: Iran responds to EU ban</title>
		<link>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/01/201214173537709411.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/01/201214173537709411.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tehran]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of a preliminary agreement from the European Union to ban oil from Iran in response to its nuclear program, Iran has blasted the EU while being careful not to encourage popular unrest. <em>Aj Jazeera</em> reports.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Greece&#8217;s New Year dampener</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/04/greeces-new-year-dampener/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/04/greeces-new-year-dampener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Maley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece debt crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greece has put a dampener on the New Year rally, warning that the country will have to leave the eurozone unless it can reach agreement with its international creditors over its latest €130 billion ($US170 billion) bailout package.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/04/greeces-new-year-dampener/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Doubts about Italy continue</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/02/doubts-about-italy-continue/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/02/doubts-about-italy-continue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The lack of confidence in the Italian government’s ability to manage its debt has returned after the briefest of respites, reports <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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