Are there diagregated figures available for the UK, Ireland and Spain?  As the piece I linked to said, there's a strong divergence between the Anglo-Saxon economies + Spain (+Ireland, eh semantics?) and the Germany and France.  Can the EU maintain the fiscal policy coherence needed to avoid the Euro being disintegrated by centrifugical forces?  Remember Italy last year about the Euro, and leaving the euro?

That possibility, pressure to leave the euro, to reinstate inflationary policies to mitigate private and public debt, that is the danger I see to "Europe" (as in the plural) rather than Anglosaxons plus Spain.

On another note, I should find the post from Escolar showing "renovated" living spaces up for sale in Spain.  Precious, I had to do the measure conversion to English units, but I know that 15m2 is a small flat no mater what the unit of measure.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg