I love how everyone in the media or politics bash those notation agencies, cause they appear out of the blue to fuck everyone else in Europe while USA is not specially in good shape financially (I say that cause this agency is American), but have given them so much advertisement that their voice now has an actual impact in the public opinion, and therefore in politics and speculations. It would have been intelligent to never talk about them. Not that they don't point at real problems, but more than they do nothing about them except compartimenting countries in arbitrary boxes that aren't really useful I imagine. If you are a pro in financial stuff, are a big bank, etc, you don't need to know that lending money to Greece is a tricky thing these days, or that northern countries and Germany are in a better shape than the others. In the end it seems like a big public opinion manipulator agency, and Europe does not need something that creates separation amongst countries in a time when it's trying to consolidate itself to live long.
Btw I think the last countries still up there are Germany, Finland, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Maybe a few other ones, I don't remember.
