The rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), is far too small to be credible.
The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) is considering issuing foreign currency, yuan, bonds.
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The SaS has balked at Slovakia - one of the poorest countries in the eurozone - being asked to guarantee 7.7bn euros of the 440bn European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
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.
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.
The package is expected to involve a quadrupling - from the current projected level of 440bn euros - in the firepower of Europe's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
Japan announced earlier in the week that they would buy more bonds from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), in which Tokyo had previously participated in purchasing approximately 20% of those issues.
And if the price is unbearably large, would it make sense for Spain to request a bailout from the International Monetary Fund or the eurozone's European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) or both?
Spain's government has insisted it will not need to apply for a bail-out from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) - a rescue scheme backed by the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
What's missing is the commitment, demanded by Italy, for the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and ESM to intervene in the bond markets - buying the bonds of stricken countries - in a kind of bailout-via-the-market.
Structural solutions outlined include that the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) was designated as a more permanent solution and it will most likely be turned into a bank as I suggested in a Eurozone Crisis Solutions.
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The credit rating agency referenced the December 3 offer by the Greek government to private investors to participate in a Dutch auction to exchange their sovereign bonds for short-term paper issued by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
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Even if the eurobond moment has not yet arrived there are others suggesting that the main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) should be increased in size so that it could support Italy, Spain, or even Belgium.
As you know, because I have been blathering on about it for ages, there is not sufficient money in the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to keep Italy afloat even for a year, in circumstances where commercial creditors go on strike.
As I discussed on the Today programme this morning, the biggest positives are that Greece, Portugal and Ireland will get a significant cut in the cost of servicing their debts, and the powers of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) have been extended.
At this stage, it is unclear how many of these banks will be able to raise the money from commercial investors, how much of the capital will have to come from national governments, and how much will be required from the eurozone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
One of the things the European package did come out with was that the EFSF (European Financial Stability Facility) would be able to buy bonds.
Increasing the size of the EFSF (European Financial Stability Facility), agreeing on a European bond are interesting possibilities, but something bolder would be better.
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In contention is an extended EFSF or European Financial Stability Facility.
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