Observers weren't expecting much from the mini-summit Thursday in Strasbourg, France, where French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Italian leader Mario Monti met to discuss Europe's dire debt crisis. Such lowered expectations proved well-founded. Because even as the situation threatening the euro's very existence continued, the trio representing the currency's three largest [...](http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&blog=19871253&post=12576&subd=timeglobalspin&ref=&feed=1)
Attribution: MSNBC, Time & Topix.