Eurozone passes treaty on fiscal rules
By Fu Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2011-12-10 08:06
French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a round table session at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday. Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Associated Press |
BRUSSELS - Eurozone countries on Thursday agreed to an intergovernmental treaty that will impose stricter fiscal rules to combat the ongoing European debt crisis, which has gone from bad to worse in the last 18 months.
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