{"id":32677,"date":"2012-05-24T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/euro_zone_crisis_boils_as_leaders_fail_to_signal_new_steps\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:15:14","slug":"euro_zone_crisis_boils_as_leaders_fail_to_signal_new_steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32677","title":{"rendered":"Euro Zone Crisis Boils as Leaders Fail to Signal New Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Greece\u2019s membership in the euro zone teetering, fears of bank insolvency rising and Europe\u2019s leaders bickering about what to do, the euro crisis is once again intensifying and threatening to undermine fragile growth globally.<\/p>\n<p>At a summit meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, regional leaders failed to signal any significant new steps to stimulate the sputtering regional economy or resolve the competing agendas of President Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Hollande of France, who favors stronger action to spur growth, and his German counterpart, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has opposed aggressive moves to ease the pressure on Europe\u2019s weakest economies.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the urgency for a solution to the region\u2019s debt crisis, now in its third year, may never have been greater.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/24\/world\/europe\/euro-crisis-intensifies-as-leaders-bicker.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Greece\u2019s membership in the euro zone teetering, fears of bank insolvency rising and Europe\u2019s leaders bickering about what to do, the euro crisis is once again intensifying and threatening to undermine fragile growth globally. At a summit meeting in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32677\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,460,582,589,595,592,149,591,200,590,144,468,478,119,454,151,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-foreign-relations","category-france","category-germany","category-globalization","category-greece","category-politics-in-general","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}