EU finance ministers have overcome Finnish objections to a permanent bail-out fund for the eurozone, access to which will be made conditional on signing a new treaty on fiscal discipline.
"We were able to agree on a text of the revised treaty concerning the European Stability Mechanism," Chair of the meeting Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker told a press conference late Monday night (23 January).
The revised text provides for the ESM, the permanent bail-out fund for ...
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