Article 32AQS The eurozone may be back on its feet. But is Greece?

The eurozone may be back on its feet. But is Greece?

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Helena Smith
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Jean-Claude Juncker believes Europe is starting to recover at last. But the picture from the union's most fallible economy is very mixed

Is the eurozone on the mend? Jean-Claude Juncker certainly thinks so. The EU president was upbeat in Brussels last week as he gave his annual state-of-the-union address, proclaiming that "the wind is back in Europe's sails".

Juncker's optimism appeared to match the view from Greece, the currency bloc's problem child. In Athens only the previous week, the visiting French president, Emmanuel Macron, had been even more enthusiastic, declaring against the backdrop of the Acropolis that Greece's prolonged crisis was over, and that therefore Europe's was too.

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