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Eurozone crisis

July 13, 2012

Ineffective, incompetent, in trouble - that's how many are describing the eurozone's handling of Europe's financial and banking crisis. DW has been asking preeminent economists and scholars to give their assessment.

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Ineffective, incompetent, in trouble - that's how many are describing the eurozone's handling of Europe's financial and banking crisis. With Greece, Spain and Italy teetering on the brink, experts are looking increasingly to Germany as the eurozone's saviour.

DW has been asking preeminent economists and scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to give their assessment.

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