During the 1930s, US president Herbert Hoover liked to say that recovery was “just around the corner”. During the current crisis and most especially in Europe it would be difficult to count the number of statements by leaders (Nicolas Sarkozy was a specialist at this) periodically announcing either the end of the crisis, or more prudently, for example after a European summit, that we are now on the right road.

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<a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?mot10" rel="tag">Europe</a>,
<a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?mot49" rel="tag">Economy</a>,
<a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?mot297" rel="tag">European Union</a>