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  • European stock markets are at their lowest level in nine months, and Dow Jones industrials have dropped below 10,000 on investor fears of an economic slowdown.

  • Tess Vigeland talks to Jacob Kirkegaard about how Greece's financial crisis can have an impact on American workers and the U.S. economy.

  • May 22, 2010

    Drachma dreams

    As Greece falls into a recession, Greeks are girding themselves for a tough financial future and pining for the days of the drachma.

  • Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou says taking legal action against U.S. banks for their role in the Greek debt crisis is not out of the question.

  • In a speech, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker suggested there was threat of a break up to the eurozone. Professor Barry Eichengreen talks with Kai Ryssdal about what can see the eurozone through its crisis and what would happen if a country pulls out of the euro.

  • In Greece, the unemployment rate for people between 18-30 is more than 25% — more than twice the rate in the general population. Joanna Kakissis reports that austerity measures are going to bring a lot of pain.

  • Spain has ordered a 5 percent cut in public sector pay this year, with a pay freeze to follow next year. The move is an effort to avoid similar debt and protest problems to those suffered by Greece.

  • The Euro dropped in global markets just one day after Europe announced a near-$1 trillion bailout. Continuing coverage from European correspondent Stephen Beard.

  • The Daily Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard talks with Kai Ryssdal about whether the $1 trillion European Union bailout is a real fix to its debt crisis and if the rescue package is analogous to what the U.S. did with the TARP to help troubled banks.

  • Beyond the near $1 trillion number, the E.U.-approved bailout of Europe will include the European Central Bank buying up sovereign debt. Christopher Werth reports.

European Debt Crisis