Estonia said yes, Sweden said no (or rather Let’s wait and see,) will Latvia say no? Plus Cancun, the new constitution…
Football?

Does anyone have suggestions for good blogs? I’m especially interested in blogs with an European perspective and ones covering the politics of a European country or region, but any good blogs are of interest of course.
One of my megalomanical hopes for AFOE was that we could use it to create a European corner of [...]

With the final result in Sweden’s referendum on the Euro being 56% no, 42% yes and 2% undecided the joint winners of the first Fistful of Euros prediction competition are Stefan Geens and our very own David Weman who both got closest, predicting a 54% no vote. It appears that the polls before Anna Lindh’s [...]

With Sweden voting on whether to join the Euro tomorrow, it’s a good time to test the predictive knowledge of the readers of A Fistful of Euros. So, what do you think the result of the referendum will be? Give us your prediction in the comments box and we’ll announce th winner on Monday, along [...]

Should we have open threads?

Welcome to A Fistful of Euros. In celebration of Labour Day - the bank holiday that Americans and Canadians get in lieu of that subversive communist holiday May Day - we are finally on line. This is the blog you want for creative, English-language coverage of European affairs.
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