{"id":642533,"date":"2010-01-25T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/leaked-eu-report-warns-of-risky-euros-threat-to-union-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:29:00","slug":"eu-privately-freaking-out-about-greece-and-the-piigs-breaking-apart-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642533","title":{"rendered":"EU Privately Freaking Out About Greece And The PIIGS Breaking Apart The Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b1ebf8100000000000c2eb7\/greece-greek-athens-protest-flag-burn.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"greece greek athens protest flag burn\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While investors speculate as to whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/demand-for-greek-debt-jumps-1000-after-government-adds-just-03-yield-2010-1\">Greece or the euro<\/a> is going to crash, it&#8217;s no surprise that parties in the EU are questioning their ties to both.<\/p>\n<p>An internal report obtained by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,673842,00.html\">SPIEGEL<\/a> warns that the differing competitiveness among euro zone countries is &#8220;a cause of serious concern for the euro area as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report said that &#8216;peripheral&#8217; countries Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, and Italy would &#8220;jeopardize confidence in the euro and threatens the cohesiveness of the euro area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/leaked-eu-report-warns-of-risky-euros-threat-to-union-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rbs-tim-ash-greece-will-ultimately-be-bailed-out-by-the-europeans-2010-1\">RBS: Here&#8217;s Why Greece Will Ultimately Be Bailed Out By The Europeans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/morgan-stanley-greece-is-a-trojan-horse-that-threatens-the-euro-and-the-credibility-of-europe-itself-2010-1\">Morgan Stanley: Greece Is A Trojan Horse That Threatens The Euro And The Credibility Of Europe Itself<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/argentina-leads-the-cds-spread-charts-with-ukraine-and-venezuela-right-behind-it-2010-1\">Reminder: The Worst Sovereign Isn&#8217;t Greece, Iceland Or Ireland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/fWwb8LJfE0U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While investors speculate as to whether Greece or the euro is going to crash, it&#8217;s no surprise that parties in the EU are questioning their ties to both. An internal report obtained by SPIEGEL warns that the differing competitiveness among euro zone countries is &#8220;a cause of serious concern for the euro area as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H9r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}