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Enviado: 14/6/2010 8:30União Europeia é um curral de "boys".
E depois sobre o que andaram a fazer durante 11 anos em que não deram conta de défices exagerados, contas aldrabadas, etc. o que diz? Estiveram a dormir! Ou pior -- estavam com uma ganda pedra!!!
Francamente com lideres assim não vamos a lado nenhum.
Strong euro hid crisis, says EU chief
Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Union, has blamed the strength of the euro in recent years for blinding the eurozone to its underlying fiscal problems.
He also criticised financial markets for overreacting to those economic difficulties and being too heavily influenced by “rumours and prejudices”.
He said: “The markets were too indulgent in the first decade, but now they overreact a lot of the time to small incidents.
“What went wrong wasn’t what happened this year. What went wrong was what happened in the first 11 years of the euro’s history. In some ways we were victims of our success.
“The euro became a strong currency with very small interest rate spreads [on government bonds]. It was like some kind of sleeping pill, some kind of drug. We weren’t aware of the underlying problems.”
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