Cosmetic Fix Won't Save Eurozone

Cosmetic Fix Won't Save Eurozone
At least European leaders can agree on Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, as the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund. But behind this display of unity, a war is raging over how to solve the Greek debt crisis as we enter the most dangerous phase of the crisis yet.

We have known for some time that the European Central Bank is hostile to any form of debt restructuring. This also includes a “voluntary” extension of the maturity of Greek debt. European finance ministers have invented a new word for this: “reprofiling” – a well-known expression taken from the field of cosmetic surgery.

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