Analysis - Shooting the ratings agency messenger

LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union's latest tilt at rating agencies has a strong whiff of "shoot the messenger" about it, underlining just how frustrated euro zone officials are with constant market pressure to act on the debt crisis.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://mf.feeds.reuters.com/c/871/f/415342/s/19750415/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Analysis+-+Shooting+the+ratings+agency+messenger&link=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2011%2F10%2F21%2Fuk-eurozone-ratings-idUKTRE79K2WO20111021%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Analysis+-+Shooting+the+ratings+agency+messenger&link=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2011%2F10%2F21%2Fuk-eurozone-ratings-idUKTRE79K2WO20111021%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/115975280110/u/0/f/415342/c/871/s/19750415/kg/253-264-268/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/115975280110/u/0/f/415342/c/871/s/19750415/kg/253-264-268/a2.img" border="0"/></a> [More]

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