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9 Nov 2010

At the insistence of Germany, the member countries of the eurozone appear to have agreed to introduce a sovereign debt default mechanism. They even seem to be willing to codify this into a new treaty – an extraordinary step. My contention is that this is a very bad decision that will make the eurozone more fragile by making financial crises an endemic feature of the eurozone.

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Author Paul De Grauwe
Series CEPS Commentaries
Publisher Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
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