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Europe’s Fiscal Pact May Solve Next Crisis, Not This One: View
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In concentrating on long-term fiscal reform and not the crisis at hand, the Dec. 8-9 European Union summit asked the wrong questions -- then failed to answer even those.
Financial markets won’t care as long as the leaders’ agreement encourages the European Central Bank to support EU sovereign borrowers more forcefully. Unfortunately, it may not.