European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)
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European Commission: Santer returns to the fold
25 January 2012384PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Eurozone crisis: Van Rompuy and Barroso to the rescue
7 December 2011223PresseuropEl País -
EFSF: Europe’s financial flop fund
8 November 2011811 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Eurozone crisis: Will someone rid us of the Greek poison?
2 November 2011328 Le Figaro Paris -
Eurozone crisis: They forget about growth
28 October 20111324 Les Echos Paris -
Editorial: EU not out of the woods
28 October 2011482Presseurop -
Slovakia: Not another cent for Greece
28 October 201120PresseuropSME -
Debt crisis: The Economist sceptical about rescue plan
28 October 20111PresseuropThe Economist -
European summit: For Daily Express, Merkel means war
27 October 20111PresseuropDaily Express -
European summit: Italy, the ideal scapegoat
24 October 2011837 Corriere della Sera Milan -
Slovakia: Back to the black hole of Europe?
12 October 2011473 SME Bratislava -
Debt crisis: Liberate Greece from its elites
4 October 20112828 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
End of the line for the euro 4/4: Shanghai endgame
17 August 2011481 Le Monde Paris -
Fiscal reform: Berlin has a euroland plan
1 February 2011PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Debt Crisis: Strong demand for EFSF bonds
26 January 2011PresseuropLes Echos -
Debt crisis: Suspense over the future of the euro
12 January 201173 Presseurop
The EFSF was meant to save the single currency. And yet it has found no buyers. Investors are shying away from a complicated, uncertain financial product whose weaknesses the politicians are trying to cover up. 
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's decision to submit the EU rescue plan to a referendum is dangerous and irresponsible, complains conservative French daily Le Figaro. 
The agreement reached by the seventeen states of the eurozone is leaving out one crucial issue: growth. Two problems therefore remain unresolved: the lack of a common macroeconomic policy and the divisions between the member countries. 
At the European Council of 23 October, Germany and France passed out some good marks and some bad marks to partners in trouble in the eurozone – to Italy, notably. While the criticism of the inertia of the Berlusconi government is justified, the current crisis is equally down to the sluggish reactions that Berlin and Paris have shown ever since the beginning, writes the Corriere della Sera. 
Having rejected an expanded rescue fund for the eurozone, the Slovak parliament has jeopardised the EU response to the crisis. Seen from Bratislava, this vote is also a threat to the relatively new status enjoyed by the country in recent years. 
The emergency aid under consideration by Eurozone countries does not amount to a sustainable solution to the Greek crisis, argues economist Rens van Tilburg. We will first have to break the grip on power maintained by the country’s elites, whose privileges remain an obstacle to the fair distribution of economic sacrifices. 
In the last episode of the political fiction published by Le Monde, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal finally catches up with the source of the document that has rocked the Eurozone and sowed panic in stock markets all over the world. 
With several countries preparing bond issues and subjecting them to the “test of the markets,” the next few days will be decisive for the future of the euro. As the European press explains, we’ll shortly have a clear measure of market confidence in the capacity of the most fragile countries of the Eurozone to put their finances in order, as well as on the future stability of the single currency.