Heike Buchter
Heike Buchter (b. 1968) has been the New York correspondent for German weekly Die Zeit since 2008.
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By Heike Buchter
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16 March 201220Die Zeit Hamburg
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Eurozone crisis
Understand the banks and you save the euro
14 July 201111Die Zeit Hamburg
The EU daydream of breaking the Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Group monopoly on credit ratings may become a reality if a lone German consultant succeeds in creating a European ratings agency. 
The fate of the euro is a matter of indifference to the financial markets. Investors are pulling their money out of Rome, Athens, Lisbon and Madrid. And Europe – especially Germany – is doing everything to drive off the financiers it so depends on.