THE EURO is a survivor. The new currency, brought into being on January ist 1999, has defied early critics, who thought it doomed to failure. It has emerged from its turbulent teenage years intact, cheating a near-death experience, the debt crisis of 2009-12. It is now more popular than ever with the public. But fundamental tensions attended its birth. Although the euro has made it this far, they still hang over it. If Europe's single currency is to survive a global slowdown or another crisis it will require a remodelling that politicians seem unwilling or unable to press through.
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