Ecb Urges Eu Leaders to Create Eurobonds to Relaunch the European Economy

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The institution calls for a deepening of the single market with a new common debt and European deposit insurance

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The central bank demands deep reforms from the Union. The most controversial point is the call for Eurobonds, i.e. the issuance of EU bonds.

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The European Central Bank (ECB) is calling for joint EU borrowing in the form of super-safe eurobonds, while also proposing that every EU citizen be required to open an individual retirement savings account, Handelsblatt has learned.

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The European Central Bank (ECB) is apparently calling for permanent joint debt issuance in the form of Eurobonds. In a letter to EU leaders and heads of state and government ahead of this Thursday's EU competitiveness summit, reported by the Handelsblatt newspaper, the ECB advocates that the European Commission and EU member states issue a "safe asset"—a particularly robust form of bond that "improves the supply of high-quality collateral while …