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September 17, 2012

Germany: Living to Responsibility

by Yekaterina Kudashkina, Voice of Russia, Russia - The eurozone took a great sigh of relief Wednesday as the German Constitutional Court ruled that the German President Joachim Gauck could sign the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and fiscal pact into law. How realistic are the hopes pinned to the ESM? How does the new mechanism correlate with the former approaches and – the possible ultimate solutions?

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