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When a crisis looks like it is approaching its peak, a bit of solidarity never goes amiss. The sight this week of François Hollande standing alongside Mario Monti in a joint call for growth-promoting policies to balance the austerity drive might have well have rankled in Berlin, particularly as common eurozone bonds were also on their agenda.
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After more than a year of vague indications, delays and consultations, the European Commission has finally set out its crisis resolution package, laying down the rules by which national governments can force losses on senior bank creditors and avoid a repeat of the taxpayer bail-outs seen through the financial crisis.
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"Summertime and the Spanish are queasy... Investors are jumping and the yields are high..."
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As much guff as sense is talked about the financing mountains, precipices and black holes that supposedly face European companies as Basel III kicks in.
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The online revolution has changed many facets of modern life. Anyone who can type is now able to share their views with the world — before the days of social networking the only audience for their opinions might have been in the bathroom mirror.
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There may be only a month to go before a second Greek default and possible exit from the euro. There may even be less time, if the bleeding of deposits from Greek banks becomes life-threatening, and central banks or the Eurozone rescue mechanisms do not stanch the flow.