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Gareth Harding
"'Pessimism reigns over Europe,' wrote former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar Monday in the Financial Times newspaper. 'We are at the bottom of the cycle, and populism is at its height,' added Olli Rehn, the EU commissioner in charge of enlargement"