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Commission President José Manuel Barroso has unveiled one of the initiatives to be adopted by EU leaders at their 1-2 March summit, the launch by June of 'bonds for growth' or 'project bonds' to boost investment in energy, transport and the digital economy.

Latin America's past offers lessons on debt, but are EU ministers bothered? -

It's said Europe could learn from previous debt crises, but what if ministers know this and are simply putting banks before people?

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To get out of this crisis we need to rebuild Europe from scratch

European Council on Foreign Relations, 22 November 2011- In an op-ed published recently in the Financial Times, Jean-Claude Piris, the former chief lawyer for the EU Council of Ministers, warned that the present institutional set-up of the EU is "no longer tenable" and called for a two-speed Europe. Coming as it did from a former top-ranking EU official, from one of its founding member states (France), who was also one of the architects of the Lisbon Treaty, this was powerful stuff.