She has been harangued by world leaders, attacked in print and lampooned on magazine covers for saying "nein" to the pooling of euro-zone debt while focusing instead on long-term reforms.

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Correspondent also works with BBC Two and BBC Four on special world affairs programmes, including the Holidays in the Danger Zone series, most recently focusing on the Stans of Central Asia.

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When you're in a combat zone, you need to be focusing all of your energies on fighting the enemy.

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"Markets are now focusing on potential weaknesses in euro-zone states whose banking sectors are very large relative to their economies, " said Christian Schulz, an economist at Berenberg Bank in London.

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