<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Nicholas Kulish & Steven Erlanger]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=23667Author <![CDATA[Time Running Short for Euro]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600 BERLIN — The window of opportunity to save the euro is rapidly closing, as the sovereign debt crisis erodes the solvency of Europe’s banks and drives up borrowing rates for even once rock-solid countries like France.

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The Frankfurt stock exchange on Friday.

On Saturday, the crisis swept away another leader, when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned after 17 years of dominance in Italian politics to the jeers and cheers of crowds in Rome.

Both there and in Greece, jumbled parliaments came together with urgency to...]]>