This Weekend's Elections May Just Be The Best Thing That Could
Happen To Europe  Business Insider  Angst over imminent
elections in France, Greece, and even Germany have aggravated
investor concerns about stability in Europe.  While French
presidential candidate Francois Hollande and increasingly
important alternative parties in Greece offer an alternative to
the German-led program of austerity that has aggravated the
economic downturn across Europe, an increase in intra-euro
antagonism and disagreement makes the union more vulnerable to
unexpected political disaster.  But how worried should we really
be about the prospect of a weak Greek government railing against
more austerity and a French president less likely to be
steamrolled by strict German ideology?  A team of researchers at
the Eurasia Group say not so much:  Despite all of this
attention, we remain of the view that the political outcomes
from May 6 are unlikely to represent a negative turning point in
the Eurozone's debt crisis. Firstly, in Greece,