22/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - Three ways of boosting Europe's financial backstop. The Wall Street Journal says the European Commission will soon be suggesting three options: - merging the European Financial Stability Facility with the European Stability Mechanism to generate a potential backstop of €940 billion; - increasing the size of the ESM from €500bn to €700bn by increasing its capital; - adding the remaining €250bn EFSF lending capacity to the €500bn of the ESM. European...