Many Banks in continental Europe have received "hybrid capital" from the state that does not count as pure equity (Banks in America and Britain, by contrast, were forced to raise straight equity).

许多欧洲大陆的银行已经从非纯股本国家那里接收了“混合资本”(与之相反，英美银行却被迫筹集直接股本)。

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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a small, landlocked state in the north-west of continental Europe, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium.

卢森堡是欧洲大陆西北部的内陆小国，与法国，德国及比利时接壤。

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“It is not an issue of integrating a European-style nation-state, but a full-fledged continental power,” he said.

他接着说，“这根本就不是用欧洲风格就可以整合的单一民族国家，而是羽翼丰满的大陆劲旅”。

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It has made clear it wants to speed up moves towards a federal Europe, with more of the features of a continental super-state.

BBC: Belgium's EU agenda

In Connecticut, power prices have soared over the past decade and are currently the highest for any state in the continental United States.

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Whereas most continental power providers, often state-backed, tied in supplies through long-term contracts (notably with Russia), British firms happily tapped the North Sea and planned to top up as necessary on the open market.

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