Much of the violence in the past couple of weeks has focused on two streets, marooned in different ways.

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They have ample room to beautify their records, by using different ways to translate past returns, earned in national currencies, into euros.

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Each of the schemes announced over the past few days - whether for infrastructure, for housing and for "credit easing" for small businesses - in their different ways respond to the same reality: that super-loose monetary policy, for one reason or another, has not kickstarted private sector activity as it was supposed to.

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