An outsider could be forgiven for some confusion about Tory views of the euro-zone crisis.
This despite the euro-zone crisis, as ASOS sales were bolstered by its international (hello America) sales.
Many euro-zone governments hoped Mr. Strauss-Kahn could find a way to relax the IMF's summer deadline.
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Even where troubled euro-zone countries had not been profligate, they have been running unsustainable current-account deficits.
Since then, however, euro-zone bond markets have calmed significantly, pulling Slovenian yields lower, too.
Slovenia was briefly in the eye of the euro-zone storm as a potential bailout candidate.
In Europe, shares of big manufacturing companies and miners declined on weak euro-zone and U.S. data.
Pension expenditure in 2009 was 12.1% of GDP, under the euro-zone average of 13.4% of GDP.
The toughest question left is Greece's remaining debt, which will increasingly be held by euro-zone governments.
First, make sure banks are in good shape before the new euro-zone supervisor begins policing them.
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Meetings among euro-zone finance ministers are presided over by Jeroem Dijsselbloem, the new Dutch finance minister.
This being the fourth euro-zone summit, however, it is starting to look like a habit.
Euro-zone officials are trying to implement Greece's latest rescue deal in the coming weeks.
Euro-zone exports to Asia, central and eastern Europe and oil-exporting countries have been growing apace.
Less than 6% of the service prices in the euro-zone research change each month.
Day, European equities higher and euro-zone sovereign-debt markets in a calm frame of mind.
In addition, the euro-zone jobless rate for February was in line with expectations at 12%.
The seriousness of the euro-zone crisis did not interfere with that tradition this year.
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Other worries also remain, including plunging U.S. corporate earnings and the euro-zone debt crisis.
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So when fears mounted over Italy's solvency last week, investors bailed out of euro-zone debt.
But at Cannes euro-zone leaders made plain that family members could be forsaken, even disinherited.
European markets closed broadly lower amid the tumult in Cyprus and weak euro-zone economic data.
Right across Europe in the euro-zone crisis, incumbents have been unseated by disgruntled voters.
If recent euro-zone elections are a guide, the answer is: Not enough to make a difference.
BRUSSELS This week's Italian elections delivered a sharp rebuke to the economic policies of the euro-zone consensus.
One way or another, the sovereign-debt crisis is pushing euro-zone countries into deeper integration.
New data indicate that euro-zone industrial orders plummeted in September, falling by 6.4%.
The pace of decline in Spain, a fellow euro-zone sufferer, quickened in the second quarter.
Similar incentives to encourage investment and outsourcing to peripheral euro-zone countries might do the trick.
But any such funds would, under current euro-zone rules, have to be lent via the government.
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