Europe

Is Italy next?

• Pub skittles, the Italian version
  

  If the euro crisis reaches Italy the results could be cataclysmic (30)

• • • Scandal touches Italy's fiscally vigilant finance minister
    • (8)
  • • A shameless budget manoeuvre by Berlusconi fails
    • (29)
  • • Details of Italy's austerity budget
    • (34)
  • • Trouble in Italy is big trouble for the euro zone
    • (8)

Elsewhere in the euro zone

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  Split personality

  How vulnerable is Spain? The answer depends on which Spain you mean (29)

• • • The European Central Bank announces a rate rise
    • Schumpeter
    • (26)
  • • Experience suggests Greece’s privatisation plan is too fast
    • (6)
  • • Plans to roll over private creditors’ Greek debt run into trouble
    • (10)
  • • The ongoing agony in Greece
    • (82)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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  He can't hide, but can he run?

  More extraordinary twists in the DSK affair grip France—and create fresh agonies in the Socialist Party (23)

• • • The crumbling case against DSK
    • (443)
  • • Is it time to end America's perp walk?
    • (11)
  • • The DSK case is changing France
    • (57)

Poland steps up

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  Charlemagne: The view from the Vistula

  Poland’s Donald Tusk must not be too ambitious in the rotating EU presidency (36)

• • • Poland's ambitious democracy-promotion efforts
    • Eastern approaches
    • (22)
  • • The Polish economy is flourishing
    • (12)
  • • Poland's government revives its sell-off of state firms
    • Schumpeter
    • (7)

German politics

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  Hello to Berlin

  The German chancellor discusses the euro crisis and domestic politics (22)

• • • The euro's troubles are causing Merkel acute discomfort
    • (14)

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