The provincial Liberal and Reform parties, and some in the media, condemn the deal outright.

ECONOMIST: Canada

What Mario Draghi finds unacceptable is that the Euro must deal with market challenges that threaten its integrity and stability (if not outright existence).

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No Spanish government would agree to abandon its claim to Gibraltar: from that point of view, a deal with Britain would be merely a staging-post on the road to outright sovereignty.

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The risk must be that whatever government emerges will only prove an interlude before a fresh crisis, in which external pressure once again is required to force Rome to confront the Italian economy's structural shortcomings, perhaps in return for a deal with the European Central Bank to support the government bond market under its Outright Market Transactions program.

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After the last general election, he wangled a deal with the winning Social Democrats, led by Milos Zeman, who had failed to secure an outright majority in parliament.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne