ESBies - now SBBS (Sovereign Bond Backed Securities)

can still be pronounced "eSBBieS"

New Paper with Details: "ESBies: Safety in the Tranches" works out the details for a European safe asset
Slides at European Commission

EU Commission Reflection paper (See page 21 on SBBS)
- for complementary regulatory changes see paper above.

Original Euro-nomics Group Proposal (2011): VoxEU  (see euro-nomics.com)

Recent Media Mentions: 
English: FT, FT alphaville, Bloomberg, Reuters, 
Italian: Il Foglio, Corriere Della Sera, L'Epresso, Il Sole 24Ore
Spanish: Expansion,
Greek: Capital, 
German: PR-Online, FAZit, SZ,