The Transfield Foundation, through which the Biennale was funded, is backed jointly by Transfield Holdings and Services.
Radical solutions like using the E.C.B. as Europe's lender of last resort or issuing bonds backed jointly by the euro zone's members are politically taboo in Germany.
Efforts to construct a financial firewall to protect Italy, Spain and, potentially, France are running behind the curve, shackled by legal and political obstacles to using the European Central Bank or issuing bonds backed jointly by euro zone member states.
José Manuel Barroso, the president of the commission, said it was important for the euro zone to commit to tighter cooperation to restore investor confidence, even if the results of such a strategy — including the creation of a banking union and the issue of bonds backed jointly by euro zone members — were still a long way off.
In the longer run, most European policy makers see a need for significant institutional changes to make "economic governance" real — perhaps a European finance minister with power to oversee national budgets, coordinated tax and pension policies, and even bond issues backed jointly by member governments.
SEOUL, South Korea — In the latest sign of a thaw on the divided Korean Peninsula, hundreds of cars and trucks streamed across the border on Monday to take South Korean managers and raw materials back to a jointly operated industrial park in North Korea, where factories resumed production after a 166-day hiatus.
Or should they try to save the euro by creating an unpopular fiscal union, complete with jointly backed Eurobonds?
Jointly backed project bonds could be a step toward commonly issued Eurobonds, a bold move that would ease borrowing costs for vulnerable European economies, which Germany has opposed.
Dismayed by the prospect of Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential nominee, conservative Christian leaders are intensifying discussions about jointly backing an alternative candidate, Erik Eckholm writes.
Ms. Winfrey is ending her show in part so that she can concentrate on OWN, a cable channel that is jointly backed by Discovery Communications and her production company, Harpo Productions.
Liberal backbenchers Warren Entsch and Teresa Gambaro have been involved in drafting the marriage equality legislation, to be jointly backed by Labor backbenchers and Greens and independent MPs.
