A British journalist began to ask a question about the meaning of the statement but burst out laughing. The room laughed with him.
Rehn fixed the questioner with a cold stare, while Juncker tried to joke his way out of the situation. But the damage was done. The best efforts of the euro zone finance ministers to tackle Greece's debt predicament and hold their monetary union together had been reduced to a laughing stock.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-europe-dejavu-idUSTRE79428V20111005
Thursday, 6 October 2011
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