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BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected a new push by the European Commission for bonds issued jointly by the 17 euro nations, saying Tuesday they wouldn’t resolve the debt crisis and that now is the wrong time to discuss them.
She appeared to be joined in her resistance to immediate talk of so-called eurobonds by eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker and Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, which is made up of the 27 European Union heads of government.
Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the commission, the EU’s executive branch, is expected to call strongly today for eurobonds as an effective way to combat the debt crisis.
