EU: Six predictions on how the fiscal crisis will play out across Europe - by Dr Gavin Barrett

Indicators suggest euro zone states will emerge from this plight bound by tighter links and where some will move towards banking union. Among the  6 predictions.

1 The euro will survive the crisis institutionally reinforced and more integrated

2 Ireland will receive sufficient assistance in relation to its bank debt to facilitate its return to economic independence 

3 Greece will remain in the euro 

4 The euro zone will become the new Europe French thinker 

5 The UK will be confronted with at least two major European questions within a few short years 

6 Institutionally and attitudinally, the course of the crisis will turn out to have been a steep learning process across Europe – but a learning process nonetheless 
  
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