For ECB, coronabonds could be shield against legal challenges
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has a concrete reason for putting pressure on euro zone governments to finance the fight against coronavirus with joint debt -- avoiding trouble with the courts.These common "coronabonds" would be a rare, tangible example of solidarity in the 19-country currency bloc, which is still deeply divided along national lines and marred by bad blood from the debt crisis of the early 2010s.More prosaically, they would also give the..