It makes you wonder whether the eurocrats fear a mass revolt against the new coins and paper money.

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With the unemployment rate heading towards 10%, politicians understandably fear the mass lay-offs that big plant closures would bring.

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Mass hunger is a real fear.

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Numerous market participants have told me that it is fear of that being the trigger - the detonator more like - of the unexploded mass of bad debt in Spain that is haunting them.

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And while there's been lots of talk of a mass migration to the more fashionable Twitter, Nielsen's figures show Facebook does not have much to fear on that front.

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