Financial Times
July 22, 2011
The European summit on Thursday has resulted in a belated, but still impressive, step towards a resolution of the sovereign debt crisis. The measures were clearly more significant than the markets expected, but at the same time they have fallen short of a once-and-for-all resolution of Europe’s debt problem. Several key compromises have been made, notably between the German government and the European Central Bank, and these have removed some previously immovable obstacles to progress.
The institutional plumbing is therefore now in place to resolve the crisis completely. But this still leaves one crucial question: how much money will be sent down the pipes? On that, the summit offered no new guidance.
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