Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management has said that the EU is now "fully signed up to some kind of medium-term United States of Europe." This is due to ECB chief Mario Draghi's new plan to purchase bonds of suffering countries if they request and meet certain conditions after getting ECB funds.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-06/draghi-lured-by-fractious-eu-leaders-to-build-bridge-to-euro-2-0.html
Critics in Germany say Mario Draghi is just printing money.