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Portugal succumbs. Now what?

Now that Portugal has succumbed to the inevitable, the key question is whether the latest euro-zone bail-out finally draws a line under the peripheral economies’ problems or marks the start of a new, more dangerous phase of the region’s debt crisis. We fear the latter.

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