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Italy’s Coming Credit Crunch
Sounds a lot like what Edward’s been describing. Glad BW agrees.
China is the Talk of Davos
If Europe can’t manage domestically driven growth, maybe China will. Or will American demand have to drive the world [...]

Namely Wampum: 2003 Koufax Awards nominations: Best Group Blog. Vote for us if you like.
Thankfully, this time we’ll lose to some very deserving blog, rather than some hateful idiot.
The Koufax awards are great, actually. They make you discover a bunch of excellent blogs. Especially great is the “best series” category.
Incidentally, Scott is nominated in [...]

In case you don’t know it exists, here’s the offical website of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU.

Jurjen (”the quiet one” in AFOE) has started posting to his weblog again after a three month hiatus. Hooray!
Only, now I’m worried one of my favorite underrated bloggers will unexpectedlyy retire. A few days after Mrs Tilton’s comeback, Cinderella Bloggerfeller went on indefinite hiatus, so I hope it’s not some kind of cosmic law [...]

Mrs. Tilton has come out of retirement, and if you don’t know how good news that is, take a look at her old blog, and your in for a treat. Note the new address.

Max Sawicky has a new MT blog.
Before the holidays, Norman Geras and Robert Tagorda also moved, and switched to Movable Type.
Oh, and let’s give Scott a proper link to his new blog (another change to MT.)

I’ve moved it to pedantry.fistfulofeuros.net. I’m putting this note here because, unfortunately, you can’t get to that URL because DNS to it has been cut off for a few hours. This is the third time our ISP has done this in a week - propagate DNS for a subdomain and then cancel it [...]

…but I think you’d enjoy reading them anyway. While we get all exercised about one small corner of Eurasia, they’re eyeballing exciting things from around the whole world.
The inimitable Bruce Sterling:
Beyond the Beyond
The slightly wacked Cory Doctorow and the definitely out there Mark Frauenfelder:
A Directory of Wonderful Things
Getting more or less serious about building a [...]

Over on Crooked Timber, Maria Farrell has some thoughts on the coming Irish EU Presidency and why the presidencies of small countries seem to get more achieved than those of the large countries. (She’s following on from this FT article)
The whole post is well-worth reading and I heartily recommend it, but she ends with an [...]

British Spin, the anonymous author of the British Politics weblog makes an interesting suggestion about how European politics could become more interesting:
One of the problems of Europe (of many) is that it is just too respectful. It is a good sign for Europe when various leaders clearly wish to bitchslap each other. Frankly, to build [...]