EU Signals Fund Leverage Needs More Talks

From bloomberg.com

Boosting the effectiveness of Europe’s bailout fund will require further talks with investors as German lawmakers prepare to vote on its new powers tomorrow, a European Union document showed. While the European Financial Stability Facility can be bolstered under two models that may be combined and implemented “quickly,” the extent to which the fund is leveraged can only be ascertained after discussions with investors and rating companies, the document provided to German lawmakers said. The draft underscores the gaps remaining in European Union efforts to address the debt crisis as Chancellor Angela Merkel and ... (full story)