NPEurotelex, May 3: Barcelonaaaa!!!

PMIs are down all over the place (today: USA) * Mayor of London or NYC? * Europe is learning German and the world Chinese? * ECB rate stable at 1%, still above the BOE and Fed ones * Barcelonaaaa!!!!! *  ECOFIN failed to reach an agreement on toughen bank capital rules, British resistance. Next meeting  and May 15 * The Web's dying (see Forbes)? * Mermont?  * "It's complicated" (UK voting systems) * What do France, Serbia and Greece have in common?