That is why we have included on the $ note a quote from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” These rights help to shape and advance a democratic society. And it is through a nation’s laws and public institutions that these rights are supported and protected.
Several days earlier the Heads of State and Government of the euro area had increased the effective lending capacity of the EFSF to € billion and set that of the future ESM at € billion; they also decided that in exceptional circumstances both the Fund and the Mechanism could purchase euro-area countries’ government securities on the primary market.