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Sun 10 Oct 2008Europe to guarantee bank lending to avert crisis
Leaders of the 15 Eurozone countries have reached agreement on a plan to jointly confront the banking crisis, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced this evening.
"This is indeed a joint action that we are undertaking," he told a news conference following a summit of the 15 Eurozone countries in Paris.
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