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  • Business student David Carraso (right) with fellow student Pierre Renauld at a bar in Paris. The young Frenchmen were very optimistic even in the light of the on-going financial doom and gloom.
    Stephen Beard/Marketplace

    With economists panicking about the future of Europe, we sent reporter Stephen Beard on a five-nation pub crawl to talk to real people about the future of the eurozone.

  • The spotlight is on Greece, where elections could determine its future in the eurozone. How are Greeks feeling about their future?

  • Germany has been the paymaster during the euro crisis, shoring up its weaker neighbors. Do ordinary Germans support this role?

  • Patrons at a tapas bar in Madrid reflect on their country's economic woes and the multi-billion-dollar bailout that Spanish banks recently received.

  • Patrons of the Bar La Fusee in Paris offer their thoughts on the euro and the eurozone economic crisis.

  • The assignment: visit five different bars in five different European nations and talk about the eurozone debt crisis. The results: kind of fizzy.

  • Europe correspondent Stephen Beard begins a five-part series from bars in Europe. He gets the opinions of ordinary Europeans on the ongoing debt crisis, starting with the Irish.

  • Europe correspondent Stephen Beard has embarked on a eurozone pub crawl, finding out how people in the continent's watering holes are feeling about their financial future.

  • Spain's government raised $2.6 billion at a bond auction this morning, but their financial crisis still looms with the banking system and government propping each other up.

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