EU should aim for more, not less in bid to contain troubles

There was no quick response, as an economic problem became political

AJAI CHOPRA’S message seemed aimed at the EU and ECB gentlemen alongside him — or perhaps more accurately their superiors in Brussels and Frankfurt — rather than the Government.

It was “critical” for Europe to “dispel the uncertainty” created by “what is perceived by markets and many as an insufficient response” to the eurozone debt crisis, he said.