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Eurozone crisis talks: too much bickering ? (part 2)

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The EU summit in July was supposed to contain the crisis but here we are three months on worrying about a default in Greece, but also the economies of Italy and Spain. Can leaders put their differences aside and really draw a line under the spiralling debt crisis?

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With our guests :

  • Julia Cage, Economist at Harvard University and Paris School of Economics, member of think tank Terra Nova;
  • Philippe Darvisenet, Associate professor of economics at Paris University - La Sorbonne, Global chief economist at BNP Paribas;
  • Thomas Klau, Paris bureau chief, European Council on Foreign Relations
  • Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of think tank Re-Define.

Watch part 1.

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