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<title><![CDATA[Timothy Garton Ash - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14633.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Timothy Garton Ash]]></description><category domain="14633">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Last Chance To Halt Erosion of U.S. Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/01/democrats-donald-trump-us-midterms</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempts to rig November'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s midterm elections]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will Democrats Learn From the Biden Debacle?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/04/donald-trump-us-democrats-joe-biden-election</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I see little sign here that the liberal establishment truly acknowledges the failures that led to the Biden election debacle. There must be a reckoning, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Germany Seize Moment To Spark a Renewal?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/germany-leadership-europe-ukraine-usa-opposition</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three times in the postwar era Germany made strategic choices that benefited Europe '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? with the US at its side. Now it must do it in opposition to Trump, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Not Losing' Is Not Enough for Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/22/europe-ukrainian-victory-alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Munich I heard both Ukrainians and Alexei Navalny's widow tell us why Putin must be defeated, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Had a Good Run, But He Needs To Step Aside]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/29/unless-joe-biden-stands-aside-the-world-must-prepare-for-president-trump-20</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats must choose a younger candidate if Donald Trump is to be kept out of the White House, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Needs a Future--It Needs Nato]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/11/president-biden-nato-summit-ukraine</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden must be bold at this week's summit, and help to give Kyiv the security that would allow it to rebuild, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Russia-Ukraine War Is Transforming Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/europe-war-russia-postimperial-empire</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[History loves unintended consequences. The latest example is particularly ironic: Russian President Vladimir Putin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempt to restore the Russian empire by recolonizing Ukraine has opened the door to a postimperial Europe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of Liberalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-future-of-liberalism-brexit-trump-philosophy</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Writers have interpreted the failings of liberalism in different ways; the point, however, is to change it. Self-criticism is a liberal strength. The very fact that there are already so many books diagnosing the death of liberalism proves that liberalism is still alive. But now we must...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Must Aim for UK to Do Well--and EU Even Better]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/31/remainers-britain-eu-brexit</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hard though it is to accept, as patriots we must wish Brexit a (partial) success, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Has a Big Choice to Make on Brexit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-on-brexit-europe-has-a-big-choice-to-make/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I will celebrate,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said an emphatic German voice behind me, while some dignitary on stage mouthed the conventional polite platitudes of regret about Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s departure from the EU.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Fed Up w/Brexit, Door Still Open to Britain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-europe-is-fed-up-with-brexit-but-its-door-is-still-open-to-britain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Britain agonizes over its destiny, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been in Brussels discovering what other Europeans think about Brexit '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and therefore what real options Britain still has.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Macron's Win the Beginning of an Uphill Struggle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/macrons-victory-is-the-beginning-of-an-uphill-struggle/article34916161/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is only a valuable reprieve. A third of voters chose Le Pen. So everything remains to be done and Europe is still drinking in the last-chance saloon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Under Trump, We'll Enter Age of Global Confrontation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/21/president-trump-age-global-confrontation-nationalist-china</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Berlin Attack: Can Europe's Centre Hold?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/berlin-attack-can-europes-centre-hold/article33407091/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We will soon find out if German society has the strength to live up to Angela Merkel's liberal ideals]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putinismo's Long Reach]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0418-garton-ash-putinismo-ukraine-20140418,0,2030239.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tell me your Ukraine and I will tell you who you are. The Ukrainian crisis is a political Rorschach test, not just for individuals but also for states. What it reveals is not encouraging for the West.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crimea Is Lost. What Comes Next Is Key]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0321-garton-ash-ukraine-crimea-putin-20140321,0,2390003.story#axzz2wamfL4d3</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Ways Ukraine May Be a Game Changer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0223-garton-ash-ukraine-yanukovich-protest-20140223,0,3245245.story#axzz2u9Ctqooe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beyond the burning barricades and the corpses in the streets, here is what is at stake in Ukraine's insurrectionary drama.The future of Ukraine as an independent state-nationIntense violence inside a state, still falling short of civil war, can go two sharply different ways. It can tear...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The World Sees an America in Decline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/15/americans-need-discover-how-world-sees-them</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, government offices were closed in Washington DC, to mark Columbus Day. Except that most of them had been closed anyway, because of the US government shutdown. As everyone knows, Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator who, in the service of the Spanish crown, supposedly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Merkel at the Helm, Europe Will Remain a Tortoise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/26/with_merkel_at_the_helm_europe_will_remain_a_tortoise_120104.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So the German people have spoken, and the European Union will continue to be a tortoise. Next May, following elections to the European parliament, we will discover just how slow and unhappy a creature it is. Then, across the next decade, a larger, Aesopian question will be posed: can the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Big Brother Came Back, He'd Be a Public-Private Partnership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/28/if_big_brother_came_back_hed_be_a_contractor_119023.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Edward Snowden's revelations about massive data-mining by American and British spying agencies show that most of the sources they are digging into are privately owned. Often they merely exploit the piles of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' revealing data that we have ourselves consented to share with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe Must Condemn Erdogan Without Hubris or Illusions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/13/europe_must_condemn_erdogan_without_hubris_or_illusions_118803.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another year, another country, another square: after Wenceslas in Prague, Independence in Kiev, Azadi in Tehran, Red in Moscow and Tahrir in Cairo, there's now Taksim in Istanbul. Each square reaches the world through totemic photographic images. In Istanbul it is that young'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' woman in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Syria: The Ghost of Wars to Come]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/25/syria_the_ghost_of_wars_to_come_118131.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA['Never again!" we cry. After the second world war. After'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Rwanda. AfterBosnia. Then it happens again. And again. According to the latest estimates, close to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 70,000 people have died'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in Syria's raging civil and proxy war, with more than 4 million Syrians needing humanitarian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unmaking Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/02/unmaking_europe_117744.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA["We have made'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Italy, now we must make Italians," goes the old saying. Today we have made the euro, and the crisis of the euro is unmaking Europeans. People who felt enthusiastically European 10 years ago are reverting to angry national stereotypes.

"Hitler-Merkel" read a banner...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Germany Has One Last Chance to Really Save the Eurozone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/14/germany_has_one_last_chance_to_really_save_the_eurozone_117452.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Europe's largest economy must try harder. It has far more to lose from a collapse than any other country in the union.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
"The crisis of the euro is over. Crisis in the euro is strong." Thus a senior French politician. A looming collapse in Cyprus, which eurozone leaders will discuss...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Growth Will Save Greece]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/22/greece-strategy-for-growth</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's be honest: if this eurozone did not exist, no one would now invent it. The key word in that sentence is "this". A smaller eurozone of more compatible, mainly north European economies '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' a nordozone or neurozone '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' could probably have weathered the post-2008 crisis of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fear May Save Euro, But Not Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Angela Merkel came to Davos on Wednesday and, in a speech as solidly built as a Mercedes, once again assured the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s business leaders that the euro will be saved. But this time, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a difference: More of them seem to believe it. That immediately raises two further...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speech Crimes and France]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gartonash-global-speech-20120119,0,6619238.story?</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the French Senate is scheduled to debate and possibly vote on a bill that would criminalize denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915, along with any other events recognized as genocide in French law. The bill has passed the lower house of Parliament. The Senate should reject...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Havel Director of a Play That Changed History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/18/vaclav-havel-changed-history1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hands whirring like twin propellers, V'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'clav Havel moved with his characteristic hurried, short-paced walk across the mirrored foyer of the Magic Lantern theatre, the headquarters of the velvet revolution. The slightly stooped, stocky figure, dressed in jeans and sweater, stopped for a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cameron's &quot;No&quot; Bad for Britain &amp; Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/09/cameron-no-bad-britain-europe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the day that Europe united. It was the day that Europe split. To save the euro, up to 26 members of the European Union are to join a fiscal compact, submitting the core tax and spend competencies of the state to mutual supervision. If this actually happens, it will mean that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Face Eurogeddon &amp; Dollargeddon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/20/us-debt-crisis-european-default</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy Garton Ash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Call me Oswald Spengler if you must, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the United States and the European Union are currently engaged in competitive decadence. The two leading polities of the west seem incapable of tackling the debt and deficit burdens which their closely...]]></description>
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