Frankfurt Turns Offices to Homes as Excesses Lift Vacancy

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Frankfurt Turns Offices to Homes as Excesses Lift Vacancy
By Dalia Fahmy on November 09, 2012

Vijay Vankadari, who has renovated Frankfurt apartment buildings for more than a decade, used a cheap and plentiful resource for his latest residential project in the city: old office buildings that businesses won’t touch.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-08/frankfurt-turns-offices-to-homes-as-excesses-lift-vacancy

Bloomberg: Europe Crisis Timeline: Maastricht to Papandreou

Europe Crisis Timeline: Maastricht to Papandreou
By Bloomberg News - 2011.11.06 05:01 PM

Following is a timeline of Europe’s debt crisis from the signing of the Maastricht Treaty to Greece’s agreement to set up a government of national unity.

1992 Feb. 7: Maastricht Treaty signed, setting up an “irrevocable” monetary union without a central finance ministry or a mechanism to leave the euro.