'Europe in danger' over eurozone crisis: Poland
STRASBOURG: Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said Wednesday that the European Union could be destroyed by the eurozone crisis.
"Europe is in danger," Rostowski told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. "If the eurozone breaks up, the European Union will not be able to survive, with all the consequences that one can imagine."
European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso agreed with the Polish minister.
"We are facing the biggest crisis of this generation. It's a struggle for the political future of Europe, for European integration as a whole," Barroso told the parliament.
Rostowski said the "current crisis, if it continues in such an unpredictable way, will have major repercussions.
"If it lasts for a year or two, we must be ready for unemployment levels that could be doubled in some countries, including the richest ones."
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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