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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10512
SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS / (ae) euro

Commission queries foundation of S&P's EU debt warnings

Brussels, 08/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 8 December, the European Commission challenged the foundation of credit rating agency Standard & Poor's to put the rating of all of Europe under “negative surveillance”. Amadeu Altafaj, a spokesperson for EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, said that the Commission believes S&P's decision to put 15 eurozone countries under negative surveillance must not be extended to the whole of the EU. The EU27 currently has the...

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SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS
ECONOMY-FINANCE-BUSINESS
SECTORAL POLICY
EXTERNAL ACTION