Spain would request a precautionary credit line from the eurozone’s new €500bn European Stability Mechanism

Eurozone debt crisis latest update, Europe must show Spain it is the answer, Should the country break up, historians will conclude that austerity policies played a part in driving it to the edge of the cliff, writes José Ignacio Torreblanca


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Latest update from Spanish debt crisis, Opposition wanes to Spanish aid request, Under the outlines of the plan being discussed, Spain would request a precautionary credit line from the eurozone's new €500bn European Stability Mechanism


Meanwhile, Peace prize sets off an unseemly scuffle, Will the European Commission's José Manuel Barroso or the European Council's Herman Van Rompuy deliver the Nobel lecture, asks Peter Spiegel