Dear Prime Minister

Frankfurt/Rome, 5 August 2011

Trichet and Draghi dispatched their secret letter at one of the most urgent moments of the eurozone crisis. Intense speculation against the sovereign debt of peripheral eurozone countries was raising fears of a collapse of the euro. Interest rates on Italy’s sovereign debt had shot above 6 percent, threatening the government’s solvency. If Italy had […]

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