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	<title>Crikey &#187; Angela Merkel</title>
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		<title>A chance for an easy dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/a-chance-for-an-easy-dollar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/08/a-chance-for-an-easy-dollar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Gray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Attention all of you people out there who think that the talk of a challenge to Julia Gillard's leadership is nothing but a media invention.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kohler: did you hear the one about the bond market?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/13/kohler-did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-bond-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/13/kohler-did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-bond-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece default]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mario draghi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=268392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Up to January, the European Central Bank lent European private banks about €500 billion at 1% interest.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The race against a Greek debt clock</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/10/the-race-against-a-greek-debt-clock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/10/the-race-against-a-greek-debt-clock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Maley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Investors are growing increasingly worried about a looming Greek debt default, as the country’s deepening recession means lenders are being asked to agree to even steeper write-offs.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What not to expect from the euro summit: a solution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/09/what-not-to-expect-from-the-euro-summit-a-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/09/what-not-to-expect-from-the-euro-summit-a-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european central bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Expectations are low for tonight's make-or-break summit in Brussels. Europe might reform itself, but fail to address the immediate crisis it faces, write <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cameron&#8217;s bulldog image in danger of losing its balls</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/08/rundle-camerons-bulldog-image-in-danger-of-losing-its-balls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/08/rundle-camerons-bulldog-image-in-danger-of-losing-its-balls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=264033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem for Cameron is that he's dealing with a triple crisis -- party, country and Europe -- while his enemies have only one aim, to make the Tories over as a euro sceptic outfit.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle: Europe re-engineered on the run, but don&#8217;t mention the war</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/07/rundle-europe-re-engineered-on-the-run-but-dont-mention-the-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/07/rundle-europe-re-engineered-on-the-run-but-dont-mention-the-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is extraordinary, unprecedented, the European project that everyone was so solemn about being re-engineered on the run like, well, like the dodgy banks that put us in this mess in the first place.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Merkozy plan means more referendums</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/12/06/another-franco-german-plan-another-round-of-referendums-or-two/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/12/06/another-franco-german-plan-another-round-of-referendums-or-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=263762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, the ratification of EU treaties by individual states has often been a timely and frustrating process. The new "Merkozy" plan will be no different, writes <b>Keshia Jacotine</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>S&amp;P rating cut warning to bring EU, eurozone back to reality</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/06/sp-rating-cut-warning-to-bring-eu-eurozone-back-to-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/06/sp-rating-cut-warning-to-bring-eu-eurozone-back-to-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fitch ratings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moody's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard & Poor's]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=263544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[S&#38;P later today will warn that Germany and the five other triple A members of the eurozone risk losing AAA ratings because of the deepening economic and political crisis in the zone.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Merkozy bands together to save the euro</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/06/merkozy-bands-together-to-save-the-euro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/06/merkozy-bands-together-to-save-the-euro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European debt crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=263492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Crikey media wrap</b>: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled their joint plan for strict debt discipline guidelines to help save the troubled currency.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Europe farce and furious on the downhill slope</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/possibility-of-eurozone-default-a-real-danger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/possibility-of-eurozone-default-a-real-danger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe credit crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=262072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks the possibility of a eurozone default, collapse and disarray, has gone from formally possible, to actually possible, to a real and imminent danger.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Europe crisis &#8230; time for conclusive action &#8230; or else</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/28/europe-crisis-time-for-conclusive-action-or-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/28/europe-crisis-time-for-conclusive-action-or-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belgium economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PIIGS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US dollar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=261735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are travelling to Europe in the next month or two, take some US dollars, it could be the short-term currency of choice if the euro collapses.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s stuck, nothing changes in Italy, and the Pope must die</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/24/rundle-europes-stuck-nothing-changes-in-italy-and-the-pope-must-die/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/24/rundle-europes-stuck-nothing-changes-in-italy-and-the-pope-must-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bunga bunga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Monti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=261238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So Europe remains stuck in a common currency whose structural flaws it cannot resolve -- and certainly cannot resolve without major reform in Italy, where the breathing space offered by the appointment of Mario Monti has been resisted.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle in Rome: peoples of Europe rise up, and demand la dolce vita</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/22/rundle-in-rome-peoples-of-europe-rise-up-and-demand-la-dolce-vita/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/22/rundle-in-rome-peoples-of-europe-rise-up-and-demand-la-dolce-vita/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=260651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Southern Europe has held to an entirely different conception of life, one in which full human beings still have room to breathe. As the Eurozone collapses, the people of Europe should look to them now for how to live.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maley: ducking Merkozy&#8217;s heavy hand</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/maley-ducking-merkozys-heavy-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/14/maley-ducking-merkozys-heavy-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Maley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european central bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italy economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucas Papademos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Monti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=258950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Europe getting fed up with Merkozy -- as the cosy duo of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come to be known?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maley: feuding over a French firewall</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/11/maley-feuding-over-a-french-firewall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/11/maley-feuding-over-a-french-firewall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Maley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italy economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=258697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tensions between Paris and Berlin are set to flare, as fears grow that the flames of the debt crisis now engulfing Italy could soon spread to Belgium and France.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Celebrations under way as Berlusconi gets a shove from above</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/10/celebrations-under-way-as-berlusconi-gets-a-shove-from-above/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/10/celebrations-under-way-as-berlusconi-gets-a-shove-from-above/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[italy economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=258400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a country that so often moves at a mediaeval pace, it has been an whirlwind 24 hours in Italian politics, writes <b>Jo McKenna</b>, a Rome-based freelance journalist.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s capital punishment</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/10/maley-italys-capital-punishment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/10/maley-italys-capital-punishment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Maley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe’s debt crisis continued to roil markets overnight, with Italian bond yields surging through the critical 7% level overnight, as European officials mulled over the possibility of a radical reshaping of the eurozone.]]></description>
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		<title>Even Izzy Dye can run Greece as long as there&#8217;s a vote</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/04/rundle-even-izzy-dye-can-run-greece-as-long-as-theres-a-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece, the eurozone, the EU and the G20 were in crisis yesterday, as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou lost the support of his deputy PM, five members of his cabinet, and several Pasok MPs, leaving the entire country, and the continent, in a state of disarray.]]></description>
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		<title>Greek PM&#8217;s gamble: say yes or 8 billion euros down the toilet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/03/greek-pms-gamble-say-yes-or-8-billion-euros-down-the-toilet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardball has started on Greece, with the IMF and European leaders letting it be known that the 8 billion euros due to be paid to Greece in about 10 days won't be paid without a "yes" vote in Prime Minister Papandreou's referendum.]]></description>
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		<title>Eurozone&#8217;s Halloween treat: a confection of silver linings and hot air</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/28/eurozones-halloween-treat-a-confection-of-silver-linings-and-hot-air/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/28/eurozones-halloween-treat-a-confection-of-silver-linings-and-hot-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The markets have seized on the latest European deal with relief. But it's another confection, and a humiliating one at that, write <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Markets soar after euro debt deal</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/28/markets-soar-after-euro-debt-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber Jamieson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Crikey media wrap</b>: After 10 hours of negotiations, European leaders finally agreed on a bailout plan to cope with the eurozone debt crisis. The news was enough to rally world markets.]]></description>
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		<title>Maley: no more Italian dolce vita</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/27/maley-no-more-italian-dolce-vita/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/27/maley-no-more-italian-dolce-vita/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Maley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As European leaders gathered in Brussels overnight in yet another attempt to stem the region’s worsening debt crisis, attention was focused on the key role that two Italians are now playing. ]]></description>
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		<title>Europe and how a colony on the moon can save it</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/26/rundle-europe-and-how-a-colony-on-the-moon-can-save-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe is on the brink -- and it's a measure of how fast-moving the crisis is that I must add the phrase "at time of writing".]]></description>
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		<title>Maley: the EU debt clock ticks down</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/20/maley-the-eu-debt-clock-ticks-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/20/maley-the-eu-debt-clock-ticks-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Maley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With time fast running out, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy again held emergency talks overnight in an attempt to settle their differences before Sunday’s crucial summit of European political chiefs.]]></description>
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		<title>Kohler: surrounded by Europe&#8217;s standing armies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/12/kohler-surrounded-by-europes-standing-armies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Kohler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson definitely got it right 200 years ago when he warned that banks are more dangerous than standing armies.]]></description>
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