jim boulden, cnn, london. >>> greece is seen as a weak link in the euro debt zone crisis. been seen as the school bully. austerity may not be popular as recent events in athens have shown, but germany's foreign minister says that it is the only option given the current climate. we sat down with cnn's frederick pliken. >> you cannot solve a debt crisis by making it he is easier to take up new debts. this is the one pillar, budget discipline. the second discipline is gross, and gross is not the results of new debts. you cannot buy growth with public spending. we have to create and to stimulate growth with competitiveness. >> so guido not sounding like he's ready to head down the road any time soon. >>> stocks, we're 90 minutes into the trading session. there's a lot of optimism that the greek swap will go through. the cutoff is around 8:00 p.m. london time this evening. we're awaiting ecb andback of england interest rate numbers. and we have eads announcing their earnings today. also air france klm, those are some of the winners in paris. if we talk about air france klm, tha