
Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, Portugal's finance minister, is greeted by Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister, as he arrives at the emergency meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday, May 9, 2010. European Union finance ministers pledged to stop a sovereign debt crisis from shattering confidence in the euro as they held an emergency summit to hammer out a lending mechanism for deficit-stricken nations. Photographer: Jock Fistick/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Fernando Teixeira dos Santos; Christine Lagarde
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