The rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), is far too small to be credible.
Further, the agreement allows more flexibility for the European Financial Stability Facility in dealing with crises.
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The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is considering issuing foreign currency, yuan, bonds.
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One proposal is to make the European Financial Stability Facility, in whatever permanent form it takes, into a bond insurer.
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World markets are a bit jittery this morning as Slovakia votes on plans to bolster the European Financial Stability Facility.
The EU's main bail-out fund - the European Financial Stability Facility - has been boosted to around a trillion euros.
The main sticking-point remains how to increase the firepower of the eurozone's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
In particular, it failed to increase further the lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the single currency's rescue fund.
The discussion will surely now turn to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which presumably Portugal will be forced to tap.
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Ministers are expected to finalize the changes to the European Financial Stability Facility and decide on the next tranche of aid to Greece.
Europe's main rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), does not have enough money to withstand a run on Italy and Spain.
But, short-term, her agreement to stand by a more ambitious version of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) could do the same job.
Prime Minister George Papandreou was in Berlin last week before German lawmakers ratified changes to the European Financial Stability Facility, the euro rescue fund.
On Monday, the global equity markets reacted positively to the European Commission saying it is discussing plans to extend the European Financial Stability Facility.
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The European Financial Stability Facility announced an expanded funding profile Wednesday, with plans to start selling short-term paper with three-, six- and 12-month maturities.
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In particular, Spain has so far given no indication that it is prepared to request help from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) or SMP.
Countries can escape from the tyranny of the markets by turning to official lenders: other countries, the International Monetary Fund or the European Financial Stability Facility.
Greece hopes to be allowed to buy back debt held by the ECB at a 25% discount, using money borrowed from the European Financial Stability Facility.
He also said the temporary bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), would be adequate to help Spain and Cyprus, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine reported.
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the euro zone's bail-out fund, must carry out simultaneous injections of capital into the region's banks as soon as it can.
Ratings downgrades could push up borrowing costs and cast doubt on the viability of the European Financial Stability Facility, a vital element in the euro zone's crisis-fighting defenses.
The EU's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which on 27 October was announced as having the firepower of a trillion euros, lies in limbo.
They agreed the terms and conditions of how to enlarge the firepower of the bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, to somewhere between 830bn euros and 1.25tn euros.
To limit contagion, the leaders gave enlarged powers to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to extend short-term loans, recapitalise banks and buy bonds of troubled sovereigns in the markets.
Since the Greek crisis first emerged, analysts pointed out, European leaders have already increased cooperation, such as the European Financial Stability Facility and sovereign-bond purchases by the European Central Bank.
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If they have a choice, European officials would delay any bailout until the permanent European Stability Mechanism replaces the current temporary fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, later this year.
The temporary rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), would be allowed to overlap with the permanent new European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which is to be activated this summer.
In Berlin, the German Bundestag is expected to approve extending the size and scope of a euro zone bailout fund with the marble-mouth sounding name of the European Financial Stability Facility.
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How many will become clearer on September 29th, when the Bundestag is due to vote on expanding the powers of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the forerunner of the ESM.
There was the same cascade of doom-and-gloom headlines when Slovakia initially balked at approving a deal to beef up the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to control the Greek debt crisis.
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