European contagion risk is back — but this time it's flipped.

14 years ago, the crisis started in the periphery (Greece, Portugal, Spain). Now? The pressure point is France. Core Europe. That's a different animal.

French bond yields spiking. Euro weakening. ECB now facing a policy nightmare it didn't sign up for.

When the core cracks, contagion doesn't spread outward — it radiates everywhere at once. This isn't 2011. The playbook is different, and the stakes are higher.

Watch French yields. Watch the euro. This isn't noise.