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To: elmatador who wrote (64100)	6/8/2010 3:37:15 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217740

Germany cuts, Britain seems to have got a government that is serious about bringing economy back on track, and the nordic region is in the nice end of the european public finances. Poland has grown through all quarters of 2008 and 2009, too. The further you go down south in Europe, problems emerge. It seems that the north/south divide grows in Europe. A cultural sign that there is a difference, could be seen in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, a contest for the best song between all countries in Europe (and Israel). Everybody spoke English on TV, except the guys from France who only spoke french and therefore needed translation to English. I know this may seem a bit strange in a forum about economics, but try to look at this list of countries that used their native language, divided by the alps: North: Netherlands, Finland South: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Hungary, Israel, Turkey, Slovakia, Switzerland (positioned in "south" because they used french language) And then compare it to this list of countries that used English: North: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Iceland, Russia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, UK South: Cyprus, Malta The winner was a song from Germany, sung by an 18 y.o. girl who was a very, very hard time speaking and pronounciating English, but her song was in English and even though she could have spoken German during interviews, and she has problems with English, she does all interviews in English. She was rewarded heavily for that. That's the new North European generation.