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De latijnse landen willen de euro obligaties maar Merkel wil dat dus niet en bovendien is het uitgeven van deze eurobonds onwettig. Zodoende werd een akkoord aangaande deze obligaties niet bereikt.
Blijkbaar was er nog een ander conflict. David Cameron haalde fel uit naar zijn collega's coupplegers vanwege het heropleven van de voorstellen om financiele transacties te belasten...
TELEGRAPH - Debt crisis: as it happened, May 23, 2012
David Cameron lashes out at fellow EU leaders for reviving a proposal for a financial transaction tax, as EU leaders fail to reach accord on a proposal for eurobonds following a six hour working dinner in Brussels.
01.52 So. Another summit over, and we're already looking to the next one to provide us with any answers. There was talk of eurobonds, but as long as Germany refuses to play ball, they won't become a reality. There was also more talk of a financial transactions tax, but David Cameron said he would "fight it all the way". Meanwhile, Greece is still in danger of collapse.
It looks like it's going to take a few more dinners before everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.
01.35 And here's what Christopher Hope made of it all:
Take home fact from the European Union summit? The EU leaders' meeting broke up at around 12.30pm, UK time, after spending just an hour - out of around six hours of talks - discussing the crisis in Greece.
Oh, and the EU leaders are still pushing the Financial Transactions Tax, despite real fears about the future of the eurozone. Speaking shortly afterwards, Mr Cameron disclosed that the other eurozone leaders tried again to push the case for a financial transaction tax.
Mr Cameron said it was a "good meeting" and there were some "innovative ideas" about boosting growth in Europe. But he added:
"Then there was some bad ideas too. The Financial Transactions Tax is a bad idea - it will put up the cost of people's insurance, put up the cost of people's pensions, it will coost many, many jobs. It will make Europe less competitive and I will fight it all the way."
01.25 So what to make of tonight's "preparing the ground" summit? Bruno Waterfield sums it up as a "vanity summit for Hollande":
Mr Hollande was able to come and say that he got a commitment to look at the eurobonds issue, credit lines for banks, FTT, etc, but the problem is that he also got all the usual suspects raising their objections, while a sense of doom on Greece overshadowed the whole affair.
One thing is new, six months after Britain's veto of a new EU treaty - the issue is back. After tonight's six hour dinner the eurozone is no closer to solving its problems and the EU's single currency looks no more secure.
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