Irwin Stelzer

Do not resuscitate

The euro is almost certainly dead. Brussels would be wise to accept that. It won’t

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No one can fault the doctors: they are using every tool available to them to save their very ill patient. But they will probably fail in their efforts to save the euro in its current form.

And this will be because the regimen they originally prescribed did more harm than good.

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