Reuters: US Dollar Report: UPDATE 1-Osborne: Euro zone crisis "killing" UK recovery - paper

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UPDATE 1-Osborne: Euro zone crisis "killing" UK recovery - paper Jun 9th 2012, 21:02 Sat Jun 9, 2012 5:02pm EDT * Osborne says euro zone facing "moment of truth" * Says next moves will shape Europe for decade or more * Europe's crisis choking UK recovery LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - The euro zone debt crisis is "killing off" Britain's fragile economic recovery and European leaders are close to the "moment of truth" after more than two years of uncertainty, British finance minister George Osborne wrote in a newspaper article. Osborne said decisions taken by the currency bloc in the coming months could determine the economic future of the whole of Europe for the next decade and beyond. As euro zone finance ministers agreed to lend Spain up to 100 billion euros to prop up its banks, Osborne said there were "already signs that a solution will be found" to the debt crisis. "Our recovery - already facing powerful headwinds from high oil prices and the debt burden left behind by the boom years - is being killed off by the crisis on our doorstep," Osborne wrote in the article published on the Sunday Telegraph's website on Saturday. Britain has benefited along with the United States and Germany from investors seeking a safe haven from the euro zone's troubles, driving down UK borrowing costs, he added. However, the uncertainty in Europe, Britain's biggest trading partner, has stifled business investment and choked its recovery, he wrote. "We are approaching a moment of truth for the eurozone. After more than two years of uncertainty, instability and slow growth, decisions taken over the next few months could determine the economic future of the whole European continent for the next decade and beyond." Britain's economy has fallen into its second recession since the financial crisis after a shock contraction at the start of 2012, heaping pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government. "A resolution of the euro zone crisis would do more than anything else to give our economy a boost," Osborne wrote. The euro zone must follow the "remorseless logic" of moving towards much greater fiscal integration, he added. That would mean stronger economies doing more to help weaker ones and more pooling of resources, possibly through the issue of common euro bonds. Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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