Brown set for EU finance talks.GORDON Gordon, river in W Tasmania, Australia, 125 mi (200 km) long. Flowing from mountains to the W coast, its main tributaries are the Franklin and Denison from the N, and Serpentine and Olga to the S. Brown will travel to Paris for crisis talks today as EU leaders consider how to react to deepening deep·en tr. & intr.v. deep·ened, deep·en·ing, deep·ens To make or become deep or deeper. Noun 1. deepening - a process of becoming deeper and more profound global financial turmoil. Amid signs that eurozone Eurozone Noun same as Euroland Eurozone n → eurozona, zona euro Eurozone n → zona euro countries are moving towards a British-style rescue plan for banks, the Prime Minister will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other senior figures. Mr Sarkozy has called an emergency summit of the 15 states signed up to the single currency - despite the fact that EU leaders are already due to gather in Brussels on Wednesday. Yesterday US President George Bush warned that a "serious global response" was needed as financial markets around the world plunge. Following meetings with G7 finance ministers - including Chancellor Alistair Darling - at the White House, Mr Bush strongly backed moves to buy stock in troubled financial institutions. "In our interconnected world, no nation will gain by driving down the fortunes of another," he said. "We're in this together, we will come through it together." |
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