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		<title>A Week in Revolting Europe</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/12/20/a-week-in-revolting-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a weekly round-up of news, comment and analysis from Revolting Europe blog, plus our selection of the stories on the web. Read it now  &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; A Week in Europe &#8211; Archive 2013 Friday 13 December  Friday 6 December Friday 29 Nov Friday 22 Nov Friday 15 Nov Friday 8 Nov  Friday 1 November Friday 25 October Friday 18 &#8230; <a href="/2013/12/20/a-week-in-revolting-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=4246&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bank nationality and the risks of European banking union</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/26/bank-nationality-and-the-risks-of-european-banking-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current economic policies are accentuating the differences between the eurozone members. Under these conditions, banking union, rather than protecting the weaker countries, could accelerate the &#8220;mezzogiornificazione&#8221; of the European peripheries, argues Emiliano Brancaccio A few days ago, the European Parliament approved a bill that will transfer the functions of banking supervision of eurozone member states to &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/26/bank-nationality-and-the-risks-of-european-banking-union/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7295&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catalonia: independence from Spain, independence from capitalism</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/11/catalonia-independence-from-spain-independence-from-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of thousands turned out today, September 11, to demand independence for Catalonia. Some decided to surround the Caixa, form a human chain around the largest bank in Catalonia and third largest in Spain, to demand not only independence from Spain, but from capitalism. One of the was Esther Vivas, a left wing activist and &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/11/catalonia-independence-from-spain-independence-from-capitalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7268&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insider dealing &#8211; immoral financial market activities must be quashed and perpetrators punished</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/09/10/insider-dealing-immoral-financial-market-activities-must-be-quashed-and-perpetrators-punished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The immorality, opacity and rampant abuse of some actors in the financial sector must be exposed and decisively punished,&#8221; Portuguese MEP Marisa Matias told Commissioner Michel Barnier in today&#8217;s European Parliament debate on insider trading and market manipulation that took place five years to the week since the collapse of Lehman brothers. &#8220;Every day in &#8230; <a href="/2013/09/10/insider-dealing-immoral-financial-market-activities-must-be-quashed-and-perpetrators-punished/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7266&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain&#8217;s bank rescue &#8211; a blank cheque?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/12/spains-bank-rescue-a-blank-cheque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vincente Clavero The party held by the banks during the years of the housing boom is costing us Spanish blood, sweat and tears. And worst of all, we still do not know the final invoice that we will have to pay. So far, it is running at 850 euros per head, counting only the money &#8230; <a href="/2013/07/12/spains-bank-rescue-a-blank-cheque/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7053&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the Troika really bailing out?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/07/08/whos-really-being-bailed-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Troika prepares to ok the next tranche of its &#8216;bailout&#8217; to Greece, here&#8217;s a reminder about who&#8217;s actually being bailed out. Check out this recent research by Attac<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7040&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are we Portuguese living beyond our means?</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/06/03/are-we-portuguese-living-beyond-our-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jose Manuel Pureza If there wasn&#8217;t the Troika there wouldn&#8217;t be money to pay salaries or pensions – this assertion is repeated ad nauseam by the heralds of foreign intervention in Portugal. And this is immediately followed by the argument that this is because we have long been living beyond our means, squandering money &#8230; <a href="/2013/06/03/are-we-portuguese-living-beyond-our-means/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6921&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The great crime scene of Greece</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/28/the-great-crime-scene-of-greece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, he and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn. By Greg Palast Read on in the Morning Star<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6880&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Troika&#8217;s Men in Black and the Crime of Organised Money</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to force states to finance themselves at high-interest rates is just a strategy to justify wage control, the privatisation of public services and, ultimately, to enslave peoples, says Juan Torres Lopez Spain has once again received a visit from the so-called Men in Black, the Troika inspectors, coming to elucidate if all is going as &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6874&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain&#8217;s bad banking joke</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/16/spains-bad-banking-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite an infusion of tens of billions of euros funded by citizens now left with huge debts and a downsized welfare state, Spain&#8217;s nationalised banks are providing fewer loans to the credit-starved economy than private lenders. It&#8217;s all a very bad joke, says Vicente Clavero If something clearly reflects the huge bad joke being played &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/16/spains-bad-banking-joke/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6822&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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