EU: Ten days to save the euro

The European Union's economic affairs commissioner has warned leaders they have just ten days to save the euro.

Olli Rehn said the eurozone has to choose between "deeper integration" or "gradual disintegration" of the single currency as spiralling debts, soaring unemployment and a banking crisis push the region to the brink. According to a report in the Independent, Rehn said: "We are now entering a critical period of 10 days to complete and conclude the crisis response of the European Union. "The economic and monetary union will either have to be completed through much deeper integration, or we will have to accept a gradual disintegration of over half a century of European integration." The...