Eurozone's citizens split amid battle to stop debt crisis spreading

"As the shutters come down on thousands of small family-owned high street stores up and down Italy, they are being replaced by slot-machine parlours, with hard-working Bergamo now boasting 7,000 slot machines, up 40% on last year. The new gambling licences are a cash machine for the government, but gambling addiction is soaring as Italians seek to turn their last few euros into a fortune. In the region of Lazio around Rome, 70,000 Italians are believed to be in hock to loan sharks."



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Eurozone's citizens split amid battle to stop debt crisis spreading
As the eurozone political crisis continues, our writers survey the opinions of single currency voters