<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ea4b09fe-77ce-49df-abcb-f9a0ecbe98a3/A22AA8FE-ED58-401C-B40C-914FDE959DA6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.businesshackers.com/2006/12/17/the-observer-euro-still-shining-in-the-east/" href="http://www.businesshackers.com/2006/12/17/the-observer-euro-still-shining-in-the-east/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.businesshackers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businesshackers.com/2006/12/17/the-observer-euro-still-shining-in-the-east/"><H3 class="posth3"><A href="http://www.businesshackers.com/2006/12/17/the-observer-euro-still-shining-in-the-east/">The Observer: Euro still shining in the east</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businesshackers.com/2006/12/17/the-observer-euro-still-shining-in-the-east/"><P>The Observer: Italy is up to its neck in debt; Spain is on the brink of a housing market crash; and Germany’s thrifty consumers are still stuffing money under the mattress. Five years after the arrival of euro notes and coins, there is little sign of the promised economic convergence - on the contrary, there are growing fears that the eurozone is straining at the seams. <A id="more-251"></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businesshackers.com/2006/12/17/the-observer-euro-still-shining-in-the-east/"><P>Yet in new Europe, countries are queuing up to join. On 1 January, Slovenia, the tiny former Yugoslavian state just across the Alps from Italy, will become the 13th member. Cyprus and Malta, both former British colonies, plan to follow a year later. While the accession countries are scrambling to get their economies in order and qualify to join, some politicians in Italy are beginning to…</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A22AA8FE-ED58-401C-B40C-914FDE959DA6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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