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The single currency endures but significant adjustments are necessary
Let the ECB issue time deposits to satisfy demand for riskless security
Why it is economically and politically important to distinguish two separate concepts
Stronger tools are needed to ensure success in the event of a new crisis
Divisions across the continent mean odds are stacked against the French president’s reforms
French demand to strengthen single currency area accepted in less ambitious form
Rome and Berlin will seize on widening deficit but the French president has no choice
Agreement overhauls bloc’s crisis-fighting toolkit but leaves out sharper implements
Agreement to bolster banking union and sovereign bailout fund to protect bloc from future crises
Ministers meet to discuss four ways to prevent future meltdowns
German finance minister wants bloc to be more united in foreign policy
Dutch-led group resists grand French ambition — with tacit approval from Berlin
Bruno Le Maire says ‘club’ compromises EU ability to rival other global powers
Angela Merkel throws a bone to French leader while tacitly encouraging fiscal hawks
Limited aims of spending proposal damp resistance from fiscally hawkish capitals
Financing could still be tough to agree and faces resistance from other EU members
All is not lost for the French president’s ambitious EU reform plans
‘Hanseatic League’ argues that Brussels has not properly policed spending rules
French president’s allies hope to create new dynamic in bloc
Angela Merkel cool on proposed response to Macron’s reform agenda
Political extremism is only one response to failing economic systems
Pool of money for single currency area a key plank of French president’s EU policy
Giving the currency a bigger global function means rewiring the EU’s machinery
