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March 5, 2013

Will the Euro Crisis Return?

Deckstein, Der Spiegel

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The recent Italian elections demonstrated that the specter of the return of the euro crisis is never far away. Not a single problem in the currency zone has been definitively resolved and some are questioning if the European Central Bank might have to intervene again.

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