The world is witnessing an “important moment in European Union history, a moment of crisis,” EU President Herman Van Rompuy said in Brussels on the 62nd anniversary of the declaration by Robert Schuman

After 386 billion euros in aid pledges for Greece, Ireland and Portugal,

214 billion euros in ECB bond purchases

and another trillion euros in low-interest loans for banks,

plus 17 high-level crisis summits,

Greece’s political chaos thrust Europe into a perilous new phase.



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