"PIIGGS" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, P Deaconu, “The Impact Of The Financial Crisis On The Currency And The Monetary System”, in Annals of Spiru Haret University",
          "text": "The so-called contagion of the public debt crisis among the PIIGGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Great Britain and Spain) worries Washington and Tokyo, the deepest in debt non-European governments.",
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          "ref": "2010 May 26, S. Gurumurthy, “Too small is ‘too big' to fail”, in Business Line - The Hindu",
          "text": "Unlike in 2008, now it is no more just PIGS that drag the EU down. The PIGS club has now expanded, with Ireland first, and ironically, Great Britain next, as the newly qualified members of the PIGS, making it PIIGGS (adding another ‘I', for Ireland and another ‘G', for Great Britain).",
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          "ref": "2010 August 4, Sebastian Tong, “PIGS, CIVETS and other creature economies…”, in Reuters",
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        "Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Great Britain (UK) and Spain, grouped on the basis of their high indebtedness during the European sovereign debt crisis."
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