Euro debt crisis spreading to core countries: EU Commissioner

HELSINKI. November 25. KAZINFORM The euro area debt crisis has spread to healthy economies, said EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn in Helsinki on Thursday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Rehn made the remarks in a speech at a forum on current European and world situations.

Germany's disappointing bond auction on Wednesday showed that the influence of the euro area debt crisis touched off by Greece has already begun to spread and touch the euro area's hard core, said Rehn.

The current situation is extremely serious, he said. The time for partial solutions to the crisis was over, he added; Kazinform cites Xinhua.

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