A man walks into a bar

Germany has been the paymaster during the euro crisis, shoring up its weaker neighbors. Do ordinary Germans support this role?

Patrons at a tapas bar in Madrid reflect on their country's economic woes and the multi-billion-dollar bailout that Spanish banks recently received.

Patrons of the Bar La Fusee in Paris offer their thoughts on the euro and the eurozone economic crisis.

The assignment: visit five different bars in five different European nations and talk about the eurozone debt crisis. The results: kind of fizzy.

Europe correspondent Stephen Beard begins a five-part series from bars in Europe. He gets the opinions of ordinary Europeans on the ongoing debt crisis, starting with the Irish.

Europe correspondent Stephen Beard has embarked on a eurozone pub crawl, finding out how people in the continent's watering holes are feeling about their financial future.