Europe's New Debt Crisis Agreement: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly -- Michael Schuman, Time
Sometimes I think the euro zone debt crisis is like watching a remake of the Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day, with the screenplay written by Financial Times correspondents. I wake up and read the news coming from Europe: worries mount about a Greek default, contagion spreads across the continent, the euro zone leaders are lost in befuddled bickering, and then a new pact to fix the problems emerges, hailed as historic. Then I get up the next day to find we're in exactly the same place we were before, with the cycle just repeating itself. Again and again. The only difference is that Groundhog Day made me laugh. The euro crisis version makes me want to cry.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Euro summit: Smoke and mirrors to calm the markets -- Simon Heffer, Daily Mail
Solutions to euro crisis are full of hidden dangers -- Brendan Keenan, Independent.ie.
Q&A: Eurozone debt crisis -- Al Jazeera
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