It could agree to swift bank recapitalization, a banking license for the European Stability Mechanism, and a more expansionary ECB policy.

The European Union also recognizes the importance of sustained, assured and predictable funding for peacebuilding activities.

The European Financial Stability Facility European Stability Mechanism (EFSF ESM) should carry out the necessary recapitalization of the Greek banks via direct capital injections.

Agreements with, and access to, the International Monetary Fund and Europe s new bailout fund provide (soft) constraints.

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Financing should come from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as from bilateral support provided by the US, the European Union, China, and the Gulf states.

The ECB is the only institution in the European Union that is able to provide unlimited funding to governments, but its governing statute prohibits government bailouts.

The EIB can only provide large banks with funding to lend to local SMEs. But the ECB is essentially already doing this with its three year LTRO loans.

Until recently, such official finance came from fiscal authorities (the European Financial Stability Facility, soon to be the European Stability Mechanism) and the International Monetary Fund.

But those commitments are still vague given the fact that EU leaders failed to say how much of the funding would be coming from Europe.

At the same time, the European Central Bank unleashed its 1 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) long term refinancing operation, which pulled the European banking system back from the brink.

But the new regulation also seriously penalizes subsidiary financing in new EU member and accession countries.

But, although banking and finance have taken center stage, the EU s constitutional problem refuses to go away.

The EMP evolved in 2004 into the European Neighborhood Policy framework, and in 2007, the European Neighborhood Policy Instrument (ENPI) replaced MEDA as the EU s main financing mechanism for Euro Mediterranean policy.

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The Greek authorities and the EU had until recently denied the need for financing, owing to concern that it would signal weakness and create a stigma.

The legal obstacles to potential monetary financing of the public sector in the European Union s governing treaties can be overcome.

Ratification would also give us guaranteed access to funding from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), should we ever need it.

To the extent that banks are, by far, the ECB s main instrument for non standard refinancing, this message is particularly important in Europe.

The ECB has been providing virtually all of its refinancing credit to the eurozone s five crisis stricken countries Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland.

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But while the EU is emphasizing its bilateral relations with Maghreb countries, not enough attention or funding is being given to the sub regional dimension.

Second, the ECB could offer to provide special treatment secured financing on the new debt to make it attractive to investors.

Since the European Union has no history of imposing conditionality, and ECB financing could be perceived as a form of bailout, a formal IMF program would be the better approach.

DAVOS The measures introduced by the European Central Bank last December, especially the Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO), have relieved the liquidity problems of European banks, but have not cured the financing disadvantage of the highly indebted member states.

If the funding is channeled through the IMF, and is to be treated on par with private debt, the Fund will need a guarantee from the EFSF or strong eurozone countries that it will be indemnified in any restructuring.

The capital would be repaid in annual installments as the funds become available through the EU budget, while the national co financing rate would apply to interest payments.

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Second, the EU must lead the global effort to provide adequate funding to Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey to support the four million refugees currently living in those countries.

The aim, he added, should be to create an environment in which Europe s finance ministers never need to consider a direct recapitalization of a bank by the European Stability Mechanism.

If German banks drop out of the refinancing business, the European Central Bank will lose the direct control over the German economy that it used to have via its interest rate policy.

In that context, the EU recognizes the continued need for a properly funded safeguards system that is both effective and cost efficient and therefore credible, robust and complied with.

Last year, with the ECB running out of tools to keep Europe s troubled banks from precipitating a financial crisis, follow up financing was agreed upon, and from 2013 onwards the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is meant to take on that responsibility. This may relieve some pressure, but it only shifts the problem from the ECB bailout fund to the community of states.

The ECB s long term refinancing operation enabled Spanish and Italian banks to buy their own countries bonds and earn a large spread.

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