BRUSSELS: Europe finally voted through landmark curbs yesterday to clamp down on its finance industry just as fears returned that Ireland, like Greece, was staring down bankruptcy.
The crossing of the final political hurdle at the European parliament marks the end of fierce negotiations stretching back to February 2009, after the US financial meltdown unleashed the world’s worst recession since the 1930s.
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