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Thu Aug 16, 2012, 05:56 PM Aug 2012

Finland prepares for break-up of eurozone


The Nordic state is battening down the hatches for a full-blown currency crisis as tensions in the eurozone mount and has said it will not tolerate further bail-out creep or fiscal union by stealth.


“We have to face openly the possibility of a euro-break up,” said Erkki Tuomioja, the country’s veteran foreign minister and a member of the Social Democratic Party, one of six that make up the country’s coalition government.


“It is not something that anybody — even the True Finns [eurosceptic party] —are advocating in Finland, let alone the government. But we have to be prepared,” he told The Daily Telegraph.


“Our officials, like everybody else and like every general staff, have some sort of operational plan for any eventuality.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9480990/Finland-prepares-for-break-up-of-eurozone.html
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