Bloomberg carrying official’s comments.
- EU to do whatever needed to safeguard stability
- To do whatever needed for euro stability
- ‘Not at end of the road’ in fighting crisis
- To do what is necessary to make euro safe
- Confident EU will overcome the crisis
- Portugal is performing well
- Ireland is on track
- Risk premiums are not always justified
- Getting hard to conduct single monetary policy (was always gonna be the way pumpkin)
- Supports central bank’s efforts
- Euro ‘is here to stay’
- Defense of euro is central to foreign policy
- Italy adopted impressive structural reforms
Yada, yada, yada……