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A woman sleeps in front of a closed shop window in Rome, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Europe is edging closer to recession, dragged down by the crippling debt problems of the 17 countries that use the euro. Eurostat, Europe's statistics agency, revealed that the economies of both the eurozone and the European Union, which has 27 countries, shrank by a quarterly rate of 0.2 percent in the second quarter of the year. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)