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Eurozone leaders call for tough measures to defend the common currency

Marcus Schlench
May 8, 2010

Eurozone leaders have approved some 80 billion Euros worth of loans to Greece to prevent the country's debt crisis from spreading. In an unprecedented move the Euro finance chief Jean Claude Juncker announced at an emergency meeting in Brussels that the Euro countries would also create a QUOTE "watertight line of defence in the Eurozone" by the time the markets open on Monday. Over the past few days speculation against the Euro has heightened the current crisis.

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