09.12.2011 - 07:44 [ Bloomberg ]

EU States to Send IMF $267 Billion in New Crisis Fight

In putting the extra 200 billion euros on the line, European governments for the first time extracted a contribution from the euro region’s national central banks, getting them to lend 150 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund’s general resources. Central banks from non-euro EU states will chip in around 50 billion euros more.