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Proposed EFSF expansion is not all that it appears

Emerging details about the recent proposal to supersize the euro-zone’s bail-out fund suggest that, at best, the plan is simply to use existing funds more imaginatively. Note that even this proposal seems to have more support outside the euro-zone than within it, suggesting that the region’s policymakers are still a million miles away from resolving the crisis.

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