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In the Balance: Does business need the euro?

23/06/2012

Does business need the euro?

BBC World Service - In the Balance, Does business need the euro?

Greece has chosen to stay in the euro, but how much does business care about it?

Greece has chosen to stay in the euro but the eurozone crisis has caused so much uncertainty, would business actually be better off without it? And why can't politicians reach any decisions?

Decisions, decisions. The Greeks choose to stay in the euro, but is it a case of Greece can fail another day? 

In the Balance discusses how the world of business lives under that cloud of eurozone uncertainty. 

Wouldn't it just be better off without the single currency altogether? Who decides? 

Not the politicians - they're too busy kicking the can down the road.  

Manuela Saragosa talks to Gabriel Sterne, director of the investment house EXOTIX and also an economist who used to be with the Bank of England and the IMF, Panos Manuelides of the Greek and Mediterranean food wholesale company Odysea and Julie Meyer, founder of Ariadne Capital and author of Welcome to Entrepreneur Country.

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