日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

left corner left corner
China Daily Website

EU ending 2012 in best shape in years

Updated: 2012-12-14 09:41
( Agencies)

BRUSSELS?- The European Union has scored a series of mini-victories in recent months and is ending 2012 in perhaps the best shape of the past four years, Finland's Europe minister said on Thursday.

The European Central Bank's promise to backstop euro-zone bonds, an agreement on forming a banking union, a deal to keep Greece afloat and the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize have all helped buoy spirits after three years of near-relentless crisis.

"If someone had offered EU leaders the situation in which we are right now 12 months ago, they would have taken it and run away with it," Alex Stubb told Reuters on the sidelines of an EU summit, the sixth and last of 2012.

"Things just feel a lot better right now than they felt before, so the acute stage of the crisis, albeit after four years, seems to be over.

"It's definitely the best year of the last four."

There are some measures that back that up.

Yields on the 10-year government bonds of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece - a broad measure of the risk attached to those countries - have all fallen sharply, in some cases by more than four percentage points this year alone.

The euro remains stable against the dollar and stock markets in Europe are buoyant, despite slowing growth. Hedge fund managers in the United States who bet against the euro zone have admitted losing money on the trades.

That, coupled with the decisions EU leaders have themselves taken to get on top of the crisis and overhaul the monetary union have contributed to a greater sense of calm, one that has almost inevitably given rise to concerns about complacency.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the lead proponent of ever-greater European integration, warned on Thursday about a slackening off in commitment.

"The fact that the situation in the financial markets is now better than before should not be seen by the governments as a way to procrastinate," he told reporters.

EUROPE NOT ALONE

The coming year comes with a long list of risks for the single currency bloc, including Italian elections set for February, the possibility that Spain will need a full bailout and that decision-making stalls before German elections in September.

Stubb, a former foreign minister, did not shy away from the obstacles ahead and said the EU still had a long way to go before it could definitively say it had resolved its problems.

"If you have to take 100 steps to get through the crisis, I think we've taken about 50," he said.

"The crisis is global and European, but the solutions are actually national. They are about structural changes at home, labour market flexibility, pension ages, student stipends.

"We've done everything we possibly can on the European level. Now it's really, really time for each member state to focus on their own economy."

 
...
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产成人免费观看视频 | 日韩经典中文字幕 | 欧美一级日韩一级 | 99久久精品免费视频 | 黄色av大全 | 国产精品黄色片 | 日韩欧美自拍 | xxxx国产| 日韩中文字幕av在线 | 哪里看毛片 | 三级在线播放 | www久久久久久 | 久久婷婷六月 | 8050午夜一级| 免费av免费看 | 手机av免费在线观看 | 在线视频中文字幕 | 日韩欧美理论 | 中文字幕在线视频观看 | 久久99精品国产.久久久久 | 国产美女激情视频 | 免费精品一区 | 日韩中文字幕在线免费观看 | 国产免费99| 少妇超碰 | 麻豆精品一区 | 五月婷婷综合网 | 久久久福利| 成人国产片女人爽到高潮 | 黄色片网站国产 | 绿帽av| 亚洲免费av一区二区 | 亚洲va韩国va欧美va | 黄色免费在线观看网站 | 国产乱淫av免费 | 色婷婷欧美 | www97| 久久久久成人精品 | 免费成人深夜小野草 | 欧美日韩一级大片 | av网址在线免费观看 |