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Τhe crisis we are going through will shape Europe and European integration for years to come; it also risks leading Europe down the road to disintegration. The crisis of the euro is part and parcel of a much broader crisis that has resulted from the bursting of the biggest bubble in the Western financial system for several decades. Greece served as a catalyst for the transformation of a financial crisis that had already hit the real economy into a sovereign debt crisis in Europe.