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Schuldenkrise: Front gegen Eurobonds bröckelt | FTD.de Debt crisis: The Front Against Euro-bonds is crumbling | FTD.de
Die Gemeinschaftsanleihen werden wahrscheinlicher: In der Koalition mehren sich die Stimmen für die Eurobonds. Die Kanzlerin könnte Offenheit beim EU-Gipfel signalisieren, heißt es aus Union und FDP. Zum ersten Mal äußert sich zudem auch die EZB positiv.The joint bonds are becoming more likely: in the [federal German governing] coalition, voices for the Euro bonds are multiplying. The Chancellor may signal openness at the EU summit, say some from the CDU and FDP. For the first time, the ECB also expressed itself positively.

The details are less savoury, though: the CDU guys are still thinking in terms of a bargain with the treaty change as price.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Nov 24th, 2011 at 05:20:13 AM EST
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According to Münchau, that's all for next crisis, not for the current one.
(In our view, the European Council should consider bringing forward the date of the December 9 summit, and adopt proposals for a Treaty Reform for a fiscal union and Eurobonds right away. Without this, there will be no crisis resolution. At this rate of market panic, it is not clear that the eurozone will otherwise make it until December 9.)
(Eurointelligence)

To err is of course human. But to mess things up spectacularly, we need an elite — Yanis Varoufakis
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 24th, 2011 at 05:55:40 AM EST
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I can't access the link, so can't tell if the quoted part is from Münchau or quoted by him from someone else. If the former, then he is speaking of Eurobonds as well as fiscal union as solution to the current crisis. Earlier it has been argued by many though that treaty changes take years and thus can indeed only address the next crisis rather than the current one. So again Martin Schulz in today's taz, though his quick solution Eurobonds supported by individual member states separately, solves nothing if I remember correctly.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Nov 24th, 2011 at 06:30:40 AM EST
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Paragraphs in parentheses in the middle of Eurointelligence's press reviews are editorial comments (presumably by Münchau).

To err is of course human. But to mess things up spectacularly, we need an elite — Yanis Varoufakis
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 24th, 2011 at 06:37:14 AM EST
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