Europe struggles with path to fiscal union

Analysis feature. A true fiscal union - giving Brussels ultimate authority over members’ economic policy, including tax and spending - may indeed be the eurozone debt crisis’s ultimate solution. But it is hard to find the appetite for getting there amongst eurozone governments.

ESO: Background information: Greek rescue package faces further hurdles http://www.europeansources.info/record/greek-rescue-package-faces-further-hurdles/

ESO: Background information: Meeting of Heads of State or Government of the Euro area, Brussels, 21 July 2011: EU leaders agree €109bn Greek bail-out http://www.europeansources.info/record/meeting-of-heads-of-state-or-government-of-the-euro-area-brussels-21-july-2011-eu-leaders-agree-e109bn-greek-bail-out/

ESO: Background information: Merkel and Sarkozy pledge to defend euro http://www.europeansources.info/record/france-and-germany-plan-joint-taxation-merkel-and-sarkozy-pledge-to-defend-euro/

ESO: Background information: Slithering to the wrong kind of union http://www.europeansources.info/record/slithering-to-the-wrong-kind-of-union/

ESO: Background information: Europe: Four steps to fiscal union http://www.europeansources.info/record/analysis-europe-four-steps-to-fiscal-union/

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