AS a recession spawned by a banking crisis struck two years ago, London looked acutely vulnerable because of its reliance on finance.

由于过分依赖金融业，两年前的那场银行业危机引发的经济衰退使得伦敦似乎变得极其脆弱。

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At the G20 summit in London last week, the world's rich nations rallied behind him to tackle the global financial crisis.

上周伦敦的G20峰会上，全世界的富裕国家云集到他身后，来解决这次的全球金融危机。

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European analyst Robin Shepherd has been following the crisis for London-based policy institute Chatham House.

伦敦一家政策研究所的欧洲事务分析家罗宾·谢泼德一直在注视这场危机。

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Finance ministers and central bankers from major industrial and developing countries meet this weekend outside London to discuss the financial crisis.

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Just how serious is the Greek crisis? Very serious, says economist Paula Subacchi of the Chatham House policy institute in London.

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But Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Center for European Reform in London, says the Greek crisis reflects a larger economic problem in Europe.

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While the U.K. housing market struggled since the 2008 financial crisis, London house prices have been resilient.

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Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at FDD based in Brussels and author of the forthcoming book Iran: The Looming Crisis (London, Profile Books: 2010).

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Sir Richard Eyre's long-awaited report on the crisis in London's opera and ballet, released on June 30th, confirmed the financial diagnosis and begged the government for more money.

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