The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised the agreement reached in Europe overnight, while one finance minister at the talks compared it to a 'Christmas present for the whole of Europe'.
It paves the way for Europe's rescue fund to directly bail out its troubled financial institutions. But our business editor Ian Guider says the thorny issue of legacy debt has yet to be finalised:
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