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Who are the European PIGS?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

There are 5 countries in the European Economic Union which are currently having particularly bad economic problems, those being Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain. In the form of an acronym, that works out to PIIGS.

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