Debt Watch: Portugal to inject €6.6 mln in banks

**The latest updates on the crisis in the euro zone.**

**08:30:** Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said European leaders should reinforce efforts to protect euro- area banks, ratcheting up pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to back new ideas for a resolution of the debt crisis.

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