Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said a majority of European Union leaders at a Brussels summit this week backed joint euro-area bonds, and Italy can help persuade Germany to support Europe’s “common good” as well. “Europe can have euro bonds soon,” Monti said in an interview on Italian television station La7 today. Germany has an interest in ensuring no country leaves the euro, while Greece will probably remain in the 17-nation currency region even as “anything can happen,” he said in the interview. “If Italy one day left the euro and reacquired its own autonomous currency, with interest-rate freedom, and the new ... (full story)