1Investors fear the crisis could overtake the bigger European economies of Spain and Italy.
2The economies of Spain, Belgium, Italy and Portugal also contracted in the final three months of 2011.
3The Commission said the economies of Spain, Italy, Britain and the Netherlands would contract more than previously thought.
4Europe's sovereign debt crisis has defied remedies and threatens to engulf the large euro-zone economies of Spain and Italy.
5But she argues that "structural weaknesses" in the economies of Spain and Greece were exacerbated by the financial crash and the recession.
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