MarketWatch First Take: French, Greek voters send message to Germany

The elections in France and Greece contain many lessons for Europe’s leaders. Perhaps most prominent among them is that the push by Germany to solve the European debt crisis primarily by imposing harsh and unrelenting austerity on heavily indebted euro-zone countries was a serious miscalculation whose unintended consequences are still unfolding.

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