EghtesadOnline: Over the years, euro zone economic growth has been a bit like the Sirens in Homer's Odyssey: singing a song of promise, only to end up pulling you onto the rocks. Will it be different this time?

EghtesadOnline: Europeans are more confident about their economy than they’ve been in nearly six years, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the markets.

EghtesadOnline: Monetary economics has not broken down in the euro zone and a gradual recovery from the bloc's debt crisis will allow interest rates eventually to normalize, European Central Bank governing council member Philip Lane told an Irish newspaper on Saturday.

EghtesadOnline: The EU is falling apart. Europe’s exporters face a crisis. Its southern economies are troubled. Germany has economic challenges of its own. But as Europe’s crises deepen, something else will become more important.

EghtesadOnline: With policy splits among European Union countries putting their bloc under existential threat, national leaders agreed Friday on a six-month timetable to come up with solutions for the multiple crises hobbling their union. But they delivered few concrete commitments on ways to bridge the deep differences.