{"id":1756,"date":"2008-04-08T12:38:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T12:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2008-04-08T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T12:38:42","slug":"links-for-2008-04-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-08\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/25930\">Most Danes want Euro<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Interesting shift in public opinion going on in Denmark, by the look of things. Are the Danes becoming less eurosceptic?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Denmark\">Denmark<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Euroscepticism\">Euroscepticism<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.setimes.com\/cocoon\/setimes\/xhtml\/en_GB\/features\/setimes\/features\/2008\/04\/07\/feature-01\">Montenegro&#8217;s Vujanovic wins re-election<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll work together for our European future,&#8221; Vujanovic said, addressing a crowd of cheering supporters. &#8220;Montenegro belongs to the European Union, and we&#8217;ll join it.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Montenegro\">Montenegro<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/eec5b180-04c7-11dd-a2f0-000077b07658.html\">The Financial Times on Italy ahead of the elections<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;sinking under a bloated public sector, over-regulation and crumbling infrastructure&#8230; It needs determined structural reform of the economy and political renewal. It does not look like it will get them&#8221; &#8211; nice&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Italy\">Italy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/index.php?q=node\/1033\">Is Iceland in danger of an economic meltdown?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">And is that the reason it was suggested they try to join the Eurozone a few weeks back, despite not being member of the EU? Economics, eh? Confusing &#8211; but this seems to do a good job of explaining the situation<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Iceland\">Iceland<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article3701533.ece\">Spain&#8217;s worst drought for a generation leaves water and comradeship in short supply<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Didn&#8217;t realise it was THIS bad: &#8220;The situation in Barcelona&#8230; could soon become critical. Water reserves there are at 19 per cent of capacity \u2014 they must be shut down when they reach 15 per cent because there is too much sediment&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Spain\">Spain<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/7335070.stm\">EU suffers defeat in banana wars<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">It&#8217;s all far more complex than this short report makes it sound and I don&#8217;t pretend to understand the details but, as a rule, I&#8217;m in agreement with most things that further global free(r) trade &#8211; so well done World Trade Organisation. (I think)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/7335991.stm\"> Eurotunnel reports first profit<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">About bloody time, you might think &#8211; it&#8217;s been going 22 years and the tunnel&#8217;s been open for 14. But it&#8217;s only a million euros (net). And is largely due to a bit of cunning restructuring. Will they manage to keep it up?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Danes want Euro Interesting shift in public opinion going on in Denmark, by the look of things. Are the Danes becoming less eurosceptic? 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