adminAbout 86 percent of business chiefs surveyed urged Merkel to stick to her guns during the eurozone crisis, despite hefty criticism from both inside and outside Europe, the Forsa poll for business daily Handelsblatt showed.
Business leaders appeared to be more pro-euro than the general population, the poll suggested, with 76 percent saying the euro should be maintained in its current form at any cost, compared to 41 percent of citizens holding this view.
There was broad optimism the crisis would be overcome, with 85 percent saying lasting solutions would be found. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (64 percent) said the effects of the crisis were not being felt in their businesses. — AFP.
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