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Merkel and Sarkozy at the EU council in Brussels. Leaders had hoped the July bailout deal would buy them enough time to go on vacation (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

EU speeds up anti-crisis measures after US downgrade

The European Central Bank (ECB) has said it will buy Italian and Spanish bonds and eurozone countries aer to hold special parliamentary sessions in order to speed up reforms after the recent escalation in the financial crisis.

ECB officials and EU leaders held a series of telephone conferences over the past three days in various formats including the G7, the G20, France-Germany and France-Germany-US in a bid to allay market fears after the Standard & Poor's ratings agency downgraded US...

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Merkel and Sarkozy at the EU council in Brussels. Leaders had hoped the July bailout deal would buy them enough time to go on vacation (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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