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March 5, 2013

Euro Crisis Breeding Comics, Not Fascists

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

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Times may be tough but this is not the 1930s. Modern Europe is a richer, less traumatized continent.

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TAGGED: Europe, Eurozone, Beppe Grillo, Italy

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