Soros: Only three months to save the euro

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Billionaire investor George Soros has told European leaders they only have three months to rescue the single currency.

Soros, speaking at a conference in Italy, said Greece was certain to elect a government that will abide by the austerity measures imposed by the European Union in this month's elections, the BBC reported. However, he said this would only provide a temporary respite, as the German public becomes less willing to bail-out its neighbours. "The crisis is likely to come to a climax in the [autumn]. By that time, the German economy will also be weakening, so that Chancellor Merkel will find it even more difficult than today to persuade the German public to accept any additional European resp...

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