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The European Union Summit begins in Brussels today

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Karlotta BahnsenMarch 19, 2009

Time to get back to business. How to handle the economic crisis. That will top the agenda at the European Union Summit beginning in Brussels today. Europe has come under fire this week from the US for not doing enough to boost financial markets. But European countries have already spent 400 billion euros in national stimulus packages. Germany and France say that is enough--despite calls for the European Union to pass a stimilus package of its own.

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