What are the prospects for core Europe?

With the periphery’s problems far from over, hopes for the euro-zone’s future rest with the core countries. But neither Germany nor France seem set for an economic transformation and the fiscal union that may be the region’s best chance of future growth and stability is decades away at best.

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