http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/us-eurozone-france-idUSTRE7B014O20111201

France and the euro crisis
The ratings game
The perils for Nicolas Sarkozy in trying to preserve a credit rating

“We need the French, or else this will be seen as Germany bossing everybody else,” notes a German official.
http://www.economist.com/node/21541027

All Eyes on Sarkozy Speech as Euro Zone Pushes for Grand Plan
http://tinyurl.com/87hvm7k


Even our folly has its limits - by Richard...


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This is Fintan Otoole again. We met him on 22 November with a brilliant piece. Now he's doing the sums and deciding that they don't add up. This charade has gone on long enough, he says. It is killing Ireland, but it is also killing the EU.

Rhetoric then takes over: "Do its leaders really expect us all to vote to give them more powers when they’re only interested in using them to take back what they’ve given us? We may be the stupidest mercenaries of all time, but even our folly has its limits".

Doncha just love this man.

Corruption rules - by Richard... Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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